(March 12, 2013 at 9:58 am)EGross Wrote: Let's say that you are one of the faithful. You are a true believer. You finally are recognized and get a promotion to work with the important people.
You are now told to forge stuff to make people believe.
One would think that somebody would have gone running back to their community, stood on a soap box and cried "Hey, everyone. They're just screwing with us!". But we don't seem to find any tattlers. Perhaps they only promoted the wicked among them who were in it for the power. Dunno.
It would also mean that only the important people in Eusebius's faction were allowed to read his Church History. There's still the problem of motive, though. Why go to so much trouble for so little gain? The faction would have been better off forging the Tacitus passage about Nero's spectacle after making sure they had the only copy of Annals Book XV.
If Humphreys really is wanting his visitors to look into things his motive regarding phantom Clement and Eusebius could be to ask us - "Eusebius was a notorious fabricator but does that automatically mean he fabricated everything he wrote about in his books?"
Where are the snake and mushroom smilies?
