Excerpt from The Apocryphal and Legendary Life of Christ: Being the Whole Body of the Apocryphal Gospels and Other Extra Canonical Literature Which Pretends to Tell of the Life and Words of Jesus Christ, Including Much Matter Which Has Not Before Appeared in English; In Continuous Narrative Form, With Notes, Scr The writer makes no pretence of having done much orig inal work in the critical editing of texts, or otherwise, He has availed himself in the most absolute manner of all pre vious work in these departments, which he was able to secure and judged valuable for his purpose, and here makes general acknowledgment of that fact. In Section II, will be found more specific acknowledgment of indebtedness; and the reader's attention is asked to this, as well as to the other parts of the Introduction, which it is hoped will fully explain the scope, sources, and arrangement of this work. 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.