12/83 5) cites the passage respecting Jesus as we now read it in Josephus. 13) and Eusebius (_Hist. 23) cite another Christian interpolation, which is not found in any of the manuscripts of Josephus which have come down to us.] The Apocryphal books of the Old Testament, especially the Jewish part of the Sibylline verses, and the Book of Enoch, together with the Book of Daniel, which is also really an Apocrypha, have a primary importance in the history of the development of the Messianic theories, and for the understanding of the conceptions of Jesus respecting the kingdom of God. |