attested to by living eye-witnesses, the nation, as such, remained in unbelief both in the mission and doctrines of Jesus. This may be regarded as a fixed and universal truth the world over. If men reject the revelation of God made to them so clearly and explicitly in the Holy Scriptures, no vision from the realms of the dead, no strange appearance or supernatural disclosure would have the least power to remove the unbelief, which has so stoutly resisted the truth as contained in the word of God.