FOOTNOTES: 

    [101] Thus Josephus (lib. ix.) says that his rival, Justus,
          persuaded the citizens of Tiberias to “set the villages
          that belonged to Gadara and Hippos on fire; which
          villages were situated on the borders of Tiberias and
          of the region of Scythopolis.”

    [102] It is said to have been destroyed by its captors.

    [103] “But as to the Grecian cities, Gaza and Gadara and
          Hippos, he cut them off from the kingdom and added them
          to Syria.”—­Josephus, Wars, II. vi. 3.  See also
          Antiquities, XVII. xi. 4.

    [104] Geschichte des juedischen Volkes im Zeitalter Christi,
          1886-90.

    [105] If William the Conqueror, after fighting the battle
          of Hastings, had marched to capture Chichester and then
          returned to assault Rye, being all the while anxious to
          reach London, his proceedings would not have been more
          eccentric than Mr. Gladstone must imagine those of
          Vespasian were.

    [106] See Reland, Palestina (1714), t. ii. p. 771.  Also
          Robinson, Later Biblical Researches (1856), p. 87
          note.

XI:  ILLUSTRATIONS OF MR. GLADSTONE’S CONTROVERSIAL METHODS

[1891]

The series of essays, in defence of the historical accuracy of the Jewish and Christian Scriptures, contributed by Mr. Gladstone to “Good Words,” having been revised and enlarged by their author, appeared last year as a separate volume, under the somewhat defiant title of “The Impregnable Rock of Holy Scripture.”

The last of these Essays, entitled “Conclusion,” contains an attack, or rather several attacks, couched in language which certainly does not err upon the side of moderation or of courtesy, upon statements and opinions of mine.  One of these assaults is a deliberately devised attempt, not merely to rouse the theological prejudices ingrained in the majority of Mr. Gladstone’s readers, but to hold me up as a person who has endeavoured to besmirch the personal character of the object of their veneration.  For Mr. Gladstone asserts that I have undertaken to try “the character of our Lord” (p. 268); and he tells the many who are, as I think unfortunately, predisposed to place implicit credit in his assertions, that it has been reserved for me to discover that Jesus “was no better than a law-breaker and an evil-doer!” (p. 269).