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NOTE B.

Modern ideas, when combined with great general ignorance of the original facts of the story, cause singular confusion and give rise to the most startling anachronisms. A case in point occurs to my mind at this moment,—that of an old picture in the possession of our family, in which Jesus sits at supper with two of his disciples. The blue Galilean mountains—or

possibly the peaks around Jerusalem—appear in the distance, seen through an open window: a Cornish smuggler with a red night-cap leans upon the table, conversing with one of the disciples; a youth, in the attire of the squire of a mediæval knight, stands in the background; while under the sleeves of Jesus' robe the starched linen cuffs of modern times are apparent.