[8] Apology, c. 34. “Now there is a village in the land of the Jews, thirty-five stadia from Jerusalem, in which Jesus Christ was born, as you can ascertain also from the registers of the taxing made under Cyrenius, your first procurator in Judea.” Dial. c. 78. “Then he was afraid and did not put her away; but on the occasion of the first census which was taken in Judea under Cyrenius, he went up from Nazareth where he lived to Bethlehem, to which he belonged, to be enrolled; for his family was of the tribe of Judah, which then inhabited that region.” Joseph was both of the tribe of Judah, and of the house and lineage of David, and there is no contradiction. It is to be noticed that the census is spoken of as the _first_ census that was taken. Cyrenius, called then procurator, was afterward governor. [9] See authorities in Note 2. [10] “Now my mother, the Holy Ghost, took me by one of my hairs, and brought me to the great mountain even Tabor.” “Jesus said unto him, go sell all which thou possessest and divide among the poor, and come follow me. But the rich man _began to scratch his head_, and it did not please him.” Origin, _etc._, by Professor Stowe, p. 22. [11] Abbott’s Fourth Gospel, p. 78; Eusebius, b. 6, c. 12; b. 3, c. 25. [12] Abbott, etc., p. 79; Waite’s History, p. 11. [13] Abbott, etc., p. 104, Eusebius, b. 6, c. 12. [14] The entire passage is as follows: “And when it is said that he changed the name of one of the Apostles to Peter; and when it is written in the Memoirs of him that this so happened, as well as that he changed the names of other two brothers, the sons of Zebedee, to Boanerges, which means sons of thunder; this was an announcement of the fact that it was he by whom Jacob was called Israel, and Oshea called Jesus (Joshua) under whose name the people who survived of those who came from Egypt were conducted into the land promised to the patriarchs.” The controversy is, whether the personal pronouns “He” and “Him” refer to Jesus, or whether “Him” refers to Peter. Judge Waite says that Justin has ten times “Memoirs of the Apostles,” and five times, “Memoirs,” and not once, “Memoirs of Christ.” It is true we do not find “Memoirs of Christ.” But confessedly the Memoirs intended were of or concerning Christ, and not of or concerning the Apostles, or either of them. Justin used the expression Memoirs of the Apostles just as we say the Gospel of John. They were concerning Christ; he is the grand subject of discourse in all Justin’s writings. And in Ap. c. 33, Justin speaks of those “who have written Memoirs of all things concerning our Saviour Jesus Christ.” In the proper and highest sense they should only be spoken of as “Memoirs of Christ.”