[42] With the customary bad faith of the orthodox apologist, Dr. Thorburn represents as a sudden change of thesis the proposition that "the Christian narrative is merely an ethical adaptation of the Greek story," because that proposition follows on the remark that the Christian myth "might fairly be regarded" [as it actually has been] "as a later sophistication" of the Buddhist myth. On this "might" there had actually followed, in the text quoted, the statement: "There are fairly decisive reasons, however, for concluding that the Christian story was evolved on another line." This sentence Dr. Thorburn conceals from his readers. There had been no change of thesis whatever. [43] Rev. Dr. T. J. Thorburn, Jesus the Christ: Historical or Mythical?, p. 231. [44] Dr. Thorburn appears to be wholly unaware of this fact of Jewish theology. See Dr. Schechter's Some Aspects of Rabbinic Theology, 1909, ch. xv; Kalisch, Comm. on Leviticus, ii, 304. [45] The Nemesis of this uncritical method appears in its development at the hands of Dr. Conybeare: "That Jesus was a successful exorcist we need not doubt, nor that he worked innumerable faith cures" (Myth, Magic, and Morals, 2nd. ed., p. 142). Such a writer "need not doubt" anything he wants to believe. In particular he "need not doubt" that the disciples were "successful exorcists" also. [46] Introd. to the N. T., 3rd. ed., i, 4. [47] Work cited, p. 7. [48] Put in the Neue Kirchliche Zeitschrift, 1896, p. 964 sq.; and Philology of the Gospels, 1898, pp. 41-43. Professor Blass has worked this argument diligently. See his Die Entstehung und der Charakter unserer Evangelien, 1907, p. 24. [49] Villari, Life of Savonarola, Eng. trans. 1-vol. ed. p. 185. [50] Herbert Lucas, S.J., Fra Girolamo Savonarola, 2nd ed. 1906, p. 116. Father Lucas does not deny that such a sermon might possibly have been preached late in 1493. Cp. p. 118. [51] Life of Savonarola, as cited, p. 186. [52] Villari, p. 214. [53] See the investigation of Father Lucas, pp. 114-18. [54] I had written this, and the confutation of Villari, before reading the work of Father Lucas. [55] As cited, p. 189. Father Lucas comments more mildly on the misstatement; but it is really a grave departure from historical truth. [56] Cp. Lucas, p. 117 note. [57] Lucas, p. 129 note. [58] This, again, he might well expect, as he avows that he had correspondents in Germany who applauded his attitude towards the Papacy. Villari, pp. 439, 519, 609. But Maximilian was invited by Sforza in the name of the Papal League, by way of forestalling Charles. Id. p. 458. [59] Villari, pp. 411-13. Cp. Perrens's Jérome Savonarole, 1854, ii, 88 sq., 95 sq.; Lucas, p. 201. [60] Manifesto A tutti li Christiani; Lucas, p. 236. [61] Id. p. 256. [62] Id. p. 278. [63] Lucas, p. 70.