Excerpt from Agrippa; Or, the Evangelists: Historical Point of View The systems of religion which have principally affected mankind, have had their rise in Asia. The Asiatics believe their holy writings to have been communicated to man in a miraculous manner. The writing upon the two tables of the testi mony, given to Moses, was the writing of God. Exod. 32: 16. The Parsee believes the holy books of the Avesta or Word to have been revealed to Zoroaster by Ormuzd. - Zend Avesta, Tom. Ii., p. 189. 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.