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(f) (i) Therefore he passed through every stage of life: he was made an infant for infants, sanctifying infancy; a child among children, sanctifying those of this age, an example also to them of filial affection, righteousness and obedience; a young man among younger men, an example to them and sanctifying them to the Lord. So also amongst the older men; that he might be a perfect master for all, not solely in regard to the revelation of the truth, but also in respect of each stage of life. And then he came even unto death. Adv. Haer. II XXII. 4. Documents of the Christian Church of Bettenson, p. 30. (ii) According to the early history of the church the tales current in the days of Papias, the Lord lived to a great age. Early. History of Christian Church, by Duchesne, p. 105. (iii) That Jesus must have passed through and been subjected to all the conditions of a complete human life from birth to old age and death. HISTORY OF DOGMA, by Dr. Adolf Harnack, pp. 277-278. (g) Matthew telling of his visit to the Land of Promise where the. Lost Tribes dwell: (Oriental Acts of Apostles). The Apocryphal New Testament, by M. R. James, p. 471. (h) Panteanus, writing in mid-2nd century, asserts he found in India a Gospel in a Hebrew Script. The Crucible of. Christianity, p. 277. (i) After rising from the dead, Jesus had spent eleven years with his disciples, instructing them. (Pistis Sophia) FRAGMENT. OF A FAITH FORGOTTEN, by G. R. S. Mead (U. S. A. 1960) p. 459. . According to the testimony of St. Jerome: (j) The Son of God was with Thomas in all the places of India . . . and with all the preachers of the Gospel, wheresoever they came. The Kingdom of Christ, by Peter Bamm (London 1959) p. 223. . The foregoing statements of the fathers of the Christian. Church contain the real story of the hidden life of Jesus. But when interpreted, they assume a distorted shape. For instance, the fact that Jesus lived long and died old was transformed into the ingenious story that Jesus was crucified not when he was 33 but at the age of forty to fifty. His world-wide travels were construed as his journeys into the bowels of the earth where he had decided to go ostensibly to save the souls of the Patriarchs of 138