15. So they took the money, and did as they were taught--thus
consenting to brand themselves with infamy.
and this saying is commonly reported among the Jews until this day--to
the date of the publication of this Gospel. The wonder is that so clumsy
and incredible a story lasted so long. But those who are resolved
not to come to the light will catch at straws.
JUSTIN
MARTYR, who
flourished about A.D. 170,
says, in his Dialogue with Trypho the Jew, that the Jews
dispersed the story by means of special messengers sent to every
country.
JFB.
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