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Show An authentic personal description of our Savior would be intensely interesting to the students of human nature, and to all classes of readers. The following letter purports to be such, and to have been written by Publius Lentulus, President of Judea, and sent by him to the Senate at Rome, when the fame of Jesus began to spread abroad in the world: "There lives at this time in Judea a man of singular virtue, whose name is Jesus Christ, whom the barbarians esteem a prophet, but His own followers adore him as the offspring of the immortal God. He calls back the dead from their graves, and heals all sorts of diseases with a word or touch. He is tall and well shaped; of an amicable, reverend aspect. His hair of a color that can hardly be matched, falling into graceful curls behind his ears, and very agreeably touching on his shoulders, parted on the crown of his head, like the Nazarity. His forehead is smooth and large; His cheeks without other spot save that of a lovely red, His nose and mouth formed with exquisite symmetry; His beard thick, and of a color suitable to the hair of His head, reaching an inch below His chin and parting in the middle like a fork, His eyes bright, clear and serene; He rebukes with majesty; counsels with mildness; His whole address, whether in word or deed, being elegant and grave. No man has seen Him laugh, but He has wept frequently He is very temperate, modest and wise; a man, for his excellent beauty and divine perfection, surpassing the children of men." |