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Show DEATH WARRANT OF CHRIST. The "Courier des Etats Unis" says: "Chance has put into our hands the most imposing and interesting Judicial [Judicial] document, to all Christians, that has ever been recorded in human annals; that is, the identical warrant of our Lord Jesus Christ. We transcribe the document from a copy of the translation. Sentence, Rendered by Pontius Pilate, Acting Governor of lower Galilee, that Jesus of Nazareth shall suffer death on the Cross. In the year seventeen of the Empire of Tiberius Caesar, and the 4th of March, the city of the Holy Jerusalem. Annas and Caiaphas being Priests, sacrificators of the people of God; I Pontius Pilate, Governor of the praetory, condemn Jesus of Nazareth to die on the cross between two thieves - the great and notorious evidence of the people saying: 1. He is a seducer. 2. He is seditious. 3. He is the enemy of the law. 4. He calls himself, falsely, the son of God. 5. He calls himself King of Israel. 6. He entered into the temple, followed by a multitude bearing palm branches in his hands. Order the centurian, Quintus Cornelius, to lead him to the place of execution. Forbid any person, whomsoever rich or poor, to oppose the death of Jesus. The witnesses that signed the death warrant of Jesus are: 1. Daniel Roband, a Pharisee. 2. Jannus Hore [unreadable]. 3. Capet, a citizen. Jesus shall go out of the city by the gate Strenuous. The above sentence was engraved on a copper plate. On one side are written these words: "A similar plate is sent to each one of these tribes." It was found in an antique vase of white marble, while excavating in the city of Aquila, in the kingdom of Naples, in the year 1823, and was discovered by the commissariat of arts attatched [attached] to the French armies. At the evacuation of Naples it was found enclosed in a box of ebony, in the sacristy of Caurtem. Mr. Dennon [?] of the commission of arts, caused a model to be made of the plate, on which he had engraved the above sentence. At the sale of his collection of curiosities it was bought by Lord Howard for 5,881 francs. |
