Show A STRANGE BIBLICAL STORY A Rome correspondent writes that the C Corriere della Sera the he le leading j Journal of South Italy publishes publishes' the following extraordinary piece of news newsOn On or On July 13 1879 there died at Jerusalem Jerusalem Jerusalem Jeru Jeru- salem an aged hermit named Core who lin in his his lifetime was reputed to be a a. saint Having left behind him a small fortune the Governor sought ought out his relatives relatives- and handed handed- them them Inthe In Ia the coinage of vario various s countries which which had been found in the cave where the hermit had lived for many years Together Together Together To To- gether with this money the relatives received certain documents which they were unable to decipher Some time later several learned Hebraists h had bad 1 an opportunity of examining them and then discovered to their surprise that they were written In very ancient Hebrew Hebrew He He- brew On deciphering the documents they read Peter Teter the Fisherman servant servant ser ser- servant vant of Jesus d II of Mary thus speaks to the people people people-in in the name and by the will of the Lord And the epistle ended end eni- ed eth I r Peter the Fisherman in the name of J Jesus sus and In the ninetieth year of my life have decided to write write the these thase w love three after the death death of my Lord and Master Jesus Christ Christ- Son of Mary in the house of Boner n nar near ar to the Lords Lord's temple The savants concluded that the manuscript dated from the days of Peter both on account of r Its ar archaic hai form and because because because be be- be- be cause St. St Mark ark n his Gospel says that the venerable apostle wished to pen an epistle to those to whom It is attributed attn attn- buted The rhe he London Bible society Is Isor iso o or of th the same opinion and after after- having submitted the he p palimpsest to expert ex examination ex x is now offering lire to to the hermits hermit's heirs for its acquisition acquisition- T London Chronicle |