Excerpt from Work A provincial tradesman as a teacher of re ligion. Celsus, who wrote the first great polemic against Christianity, made it one of his objections that Christ had worked with His own hands. It was a natural objection to a learned philosopher, who did not enter into the heart of the faith, and who, therefore, could not see the bearing of the strange fact. 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.