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→Quotes: Added quotes from nineteenth century Harvard Professor Simon Greenleaf.
==Quotes==
''[https://archive.org/details/examinationofte00gree Greenleaf S (1847), "Examination of the testimony of the four evangelists, by the rules of evidence administered in courts of justice", London, England, A Maxwell.] Simon Greenleaf, LL.D., was Royall Professor and then Dane Professor of Law in Harvard University. An article in the North American Review described him as "the honoured head of the most distinguished and prosperous school of English law in the world" (page v).''
* These copies of the Holy Scriptures ... it is quite erroneous to suppose that the Christian is bound to offer any further proof of their genuineness or authenticity. It is for the objector to show them spurious; for on him, by the plainest rules of law, lies the burden of proof. (Section 10, page 9.)
* [T]he Four Evangelists should be admitted in corroboration of each other, as readily as Josephus and Tacitus, or Polybius and Livy. (Section 28.)
* Far greater discrepancies can be found in the different reports of the same case, given by the reporters of legal judgments than are shown among the evangelists; and yet we do not consider them as detracting from the credit of the reporters, to whom we still resort with confidence, as to good authority. (Section 36.)
* The connexion of the word or the act of Jesus with the restoration of the blind, lame and dead, to sight, and health, and life, as cause and effect, is a conclusion which, our reason is compelled to admit, from the uniformity of their concurrence, in such a multitude of instances, as well as from the universal conviction of all, whether friends or foes, who beheld the miracles which he wrought. (Section 38.)
* Either the men of Galilee were men of superlative wisdom, of extensive knowledge and experience, and of deeper skill in the arts of deception, than any and all others, before or after them, or they have truly stated the astonishing things which they saw and heard. (Section 48, page 47.)
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