Excerpt from The Cross Triumphant Bsus, a carpenter of Galilee, who also was called the Christ by certain Jews who fol lowed him, had been dead full seventeen years dead, and already put out of mind and forgotten by many who had both seen him and heard him speak, when a man-child was born in the little mountain village of Aphtha. Many months before the child Opened his eyes in the cold gray of a winter dawn his father had closed his forever. They laid him, swathed hand and foot in spiced linen, in a narrow niche cut deep in the rocky hillside. 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.