Historicity of Jesus - 2

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“The New Testament is the Old Testament revealed; the Old Testament is the New Testament concealed.”

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Cicero, On the Nature of the Gods, 2.27

There is a remark of Timæus which, like many of his, shows ingenuity; after saying in his history that the temple of the Ephesian Diana had been burnt down on the same night that Alexander was born, he added that that was by no means to be wondered at, since Diana wishing to be present at the delivery of Olympias had been absent from her home.

Cicero, On Divination, 1.23

Everybody knows that on the same night in which Olympias was delivered of Alexander the temple of Diana at Ephesus was burned, <b>and that the magi began to cry out as day was breaking: ‘Asia’s deadly curse was born last night.
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Plutarch, Alexander

Alexander was born the sixth of Hecatombaeon, which month the Macedonians call Lous, the same day that the temple of Diana at Ephesus was burnt; which Hegesias of Magnesia makes the occasion of a conceit, frigid enough to have stopped the conflagration. The temple, he says, took fire and was burnt while its mistress was absent, assisting at the birth of Alexander. And all the Eastern soothsayers who happened to be then at Ephesus, looking upon the ruin of this temple to be the forerunner of some other calamity, ran about the town, beating their faces, and crying that this day had brought forth something that would prove fatal and destructive to all Asia. link<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->