118 The Fundamentals over the world. One is almost tempted to say that if such is the result of an attack of epilepsy, what a pity that such a professor as this had not a similar attack. Then possibly he, too, might yet be heard from in the world.] I I I . PAUL WAS NOT DECEIVED BY OTHERS This third possible solution Lyttelton dismisses with a single page. The fraud of others could not have deceived him; for, (1) It was morally impossible that the disciples of Christ could have thought of such a fraud at the instant of Paul’s greatest fury against them. (2) It was physically impossible for them to do it. Could they produce a light brighter than the midday sun; cause him to hear a voice speaking out of that light; make him blind for three days and then return his sight at a word, etc.? There were no Christians around when the miracle of his conversion took place. (3) No fraud could have produced those subsequent mir- acles which he himself actively wrought and to which he so confidently appealed in proof of his divine mission. IV . CHR IST IAN ITY A D IV IN E REVELATION Our author considers that he has furnished sufficient evi- dence to show (1) that Paul was not an impostor deliberately proclaiming what he knew to be false with intent to deceive; ( 2 ) that he was not imposed upon by an overheated imagina- tion, and (3) that he was not deceived by the fraud of others. Unless, therefore, we are prepared to lay aside the use of our understanding and all the rules of evidence by which facts are determined, we must accept the whole story of Paul’s con- version as literally and historically true. We have therefore the supernatural, and the Christian religion is proved to be a revelation from God. Endeavoring as closely as possible to follow the original, and yet considerably in my own language, I have sought to give
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