Nor does it account for the _grave-clothes_ being so carefully left behind. For if Christ had come out of the tomb by Himself, He could scarcely have left His clothes behind; not to mention the difficulty of taking them off, caused by the adhesive myrrh, which would have stuck them together, and to the Body. These grave-clothes are thus fatal to this, as to every other theory, except the Christian one; yet it was a simple matter of fact, as to which there could be no possible _mistake_. Either the clothes were there, or else the persons who said they saw them were telling a falsehood. Moreover, in any case Christ could not have walked to Emmaus and back, or appeared to the Apostles, or to anyone else, in His _grave-clothes_, so He must have obtained some others, and how did He get them? His enemies are not likely to have supplied them, and if His friends did, they must have been aware of the fraud. On the whole then, we decide that the _Swoon Theory_, like the Vision Theory, is very improbable in any case, and only tenable at all by supposing a large part of our narratives to be intentionally false. But then it is quite needless. (_E._) CONCLUSION. Before concluding this chapter a few remarks may be made on the alleged difficulties of the _Christian_ theory. There are only two of any importance. The first is that the Resurrection would be a _miracle_, and probably nine out of ten men who disbelieve it, do so for this reason. It is not that the evidence for it is insufficient (they have perhaps never examined it) but that no conceivable evidence would be sufficient to establish such an event. Miracles, they say, are incredible, _they cannot happen_, and that settles the point; for it is of course easier to believe _any_ explanation, visions, swoons, or anything else, than the occurrence of that which cannot happen. But we have already admitted, in Chapter VII., that miracles are _not_ incredible. And though no doubt, _under ordinary circumstances_, a dead man coming to life again would be so _extremely_ improbable as to be practically incredible; yet these were not ordinary circumstances, and Christ was not an ordinary man. On the contrary, as we shall see, He was an absolutely unique Man, claiming moreover to be Divine, and having a mass of powerful evidence both from His own Character, from previous Prophecies, and from subsequent History, to support His claims. Therefore that He should rise from the dead, as a proof that these claims were well-founded, does not seem so very improbable after all. The other difficulty refers to Christ's not appearing _publicly_ to the Jews. Why, it is asked, did He only appear to His own disciples? Surely this is very suspicious. If He really did rise from the dead, and wished the world to believe it, why did He not settle the point by going publicly into Jerusalem?