CHAPTER XXV

Death of Jesus 360

CHAPTER XXVI

Jesus in the Tomb 370

CHAPTER XXVII

Fate of the Enemies of Jesus 376

CHAPTER XXVIII

Essential Character of the Work of Jesus 381




AUTHOR'S INTRODUCTION,

In Which the Sources of This History Are Principally Treated


A history of the "Origin of Christianity" ought to embrace all the
obscure, and, if one might so speak, subterranean periods which extend
from the first beginnings of this religion up to the moment when its
existence became a public fact, notorious and evident to the eyes of
all. Such a history would consist of four books. The first, which I