PUBLIUS LENTULUS. We have a Letter of one Publius Lentulus, pretended to have been Governor of Judea before Pilate, in which he gives an Acount of our Saviour Jesus Christ to the Senate of Rome, in a very advantageous manner. This Piece is to be found in many Manuscripts, and several Printed Books : It begins thus ; Apparuit temporibus istis, & adhuc vivit, vir praeditus potentiâ magnâ, nomine Christus Jesus, &c. But this a Piece of errant Forgery, unknown to the Antients, and deserving the utmost Contempt. Publius Lentulus was never Governor of Judea ; and Pilate was in this Office all the Time of our Saviour’s Preaching : But before Christ went to the Baptism of John, he was not famous in Judea1.
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Vide, si placet. Fabric. Apocryph. N. T. p. 301, &c, & Authores ab eo laudatos. ↩