فلسطین سے کشمیر تک (ایک عظیم الشان تحقیق)

فلسطین سے کشمیر تک (ایک عظیم الشان تحقیق) — Page 175

175 فلسطین سے کشمیر تک سے بعض فرقے خود اس بات کے قائل ہیں کہ مسیح کی آمد ثانی الیاس نبی کی طرح بروزی طور پر ہے۔چنانچہ نیولائف آف جیزس جلد اوّل صفحہ ۴۱۰ مصنفہ ڈی ایف سڑ اس میں یہ عبارت ہے :- ( جرمن کے بعض عیسائی محققوں کی رائے کہ مسیح صلیب پر نہیں مرا) Crucifiction they maintain, even if the feet as well as the hands are supposed to have been nailed occasions but very little loss of blood۔It kills therefore only very slowly by convulsions produced by the straining of the limbs or by gradual starvation۔So if Jesus supposed indeed to be dead, had been taken down from the cross after about six hours, there is every probability of his supposed death having been only a death-like swoon from which after the descent from the cross Jesus recovered again in the cool cavern covered as he was with healing ointments and strongly scented spices۔On this head it is usual to appeal to an account in Josephus, who says that on one occasion, when he was returning from a military recognizance, on which he had been sent, he found several Jewish prisoners who had been crucified۔He saw among them three acquaintances whom he begged Titus to give to him۔They were