Excerpt from The Lord of Life and Death N OW just because this miracle is so tremendous, it is the miracle that has been exposed to the most searching and rigorous and mordant criticism. Every objection, reasonable or unreasonable, that ingenu ity could devise has been urged against it. And the reason for that is quite plain - the consequences of the truth of this story are so great. Spinoza is said to have declared that if he could be persuaded of the truth of the story of the raising of Lazarus, he would break up his system and become a Christian. That, as Dr. Plummer comments, is not a very logi cal position to take up, for the cardinal miracle in Christianity is not the resurrection of Lazarus, but the resurrection of Christ Himself. But still this miracle does exercise a mighty influence upon the hearts and intellects of men. For, once a man be lieves it, he cannot fail to be confronted with the question What manner of man is this, that even death and the grave obey Him? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.