It is true, many are hesitating to draw these fearful conclusions and to utter them; arriving at this point, they cautiously stop: so _Harnack_. “How Jesus could arrive at the consciousness of His unique relation to God as His Son, how He became conscious of His power as well as of the obligation and task involved in this power, that is His secret, and no psychology will ever disclose it.... Here, all research must halt.” It is the silence of embarrassment, but equally of unscientific method. Having arrived at untenable conclusions, when question upon question is impetuously suggested, they stop suddenly and have nothing to say but a vague word about inscrutableness. But there are those who actually speak the word so horrible to a Christian heart: Jesus was demented, a subject for pathology. _Strauss_ indicated this cautiously: “One who expects to return after his death in a manner in which no human being had ever returned, he is to us ... not exactly a lunatic, but a great visionary.” Others speak more plainly. _Holtzmann’s_ answer to the question: Was Jesus an Ecstatic, is an emphatic: “Yes, He was.” _De Loosten_ considers him insane. _E. Rasmussen_ thinks Him an epileptic, but grants to physicians the right to reckon him among paranoiacs or lunatics. To _A. Jülicher_ Jesus is a visionary, “a mystic, not satisfied to dream of his ideals, but who lived with them, worked with them, even saw them tangibly before his eyes, deceiving himself and others.” Thus the supernatural has become madness; Jesus Christ, for whose divinity the martyrs went to their death, wears now, before the forum of a false science, Herod’s cloak of foolishness.