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Rh on hands of Iarchas, the chief of the Indian sages, from whom we know that Apollonius derives his knowledge and his power. His miraculous appearances to his friends Damis and Demetrius, who think at first that he is a spirit, remind us at once, by the way in which they are told, of the appearances of Jesus after His death, and, like the appearances of Apollonius, they are no longer subject to the laws which regulate the movements of matter in space.

This astonishing similarity must not be exaggerated as though Philostratus had always and throughout his work kept his artistic and rhetorical taste and his imaginative love of the marvellous in a kind of subjection to a desire to reproduce the person of Jesus Christ in all its exact minuteness of detail. But surely all the points of resemblance which we have glanced at can neither be accidental nor imaginary. It is all the more difficult to believe this to be the case when we reflect that it can be stated positively that Philostratus evidently devotes much attention to Christianity, if he does not allude to it.