THE wonderful darkness of the sun at our Lord's death, and the earthquake, is recorded by Phlegon, whom Eusebius calls an excellent computer of the Olympiads.203He says: "Then was a great and wonderful eclipse beyond any that ever happened. The day at the sixth hour, was so far turned into dark night, that the stars appeared, and an earthquake in Bithynia did overthrow many houses in the city of Nice." Now, this darkening of the sun recorded by Phlegon, and that in the holy Evangelist, at our Lord's death, are one and the same, for both happened the same year, viz, the 18th of Tiberius, the same hour, viz, the 6th hour of the day; and a great earthquake made both more memorable. Therefore Tertullian, when pleading the cause of Christians against the heathen, appeals to their public tables and records as witnesses to the fact. Lucianus of Antioch, the martyr, appeals to the archives of Nicomedia, before the president of the city: "Consult," says he "the annals, and you'll find that, in the time of Pilate, while Christ suffered in the middle of the day, the sun did disappear, and chase away the day." 'Tis also observable, that it is reported in the history of China, written by Hadrianus Greslonious, that the Chinese remark—"That at the same time we Christians compute Christ suffered in the month of April, an extraordinary eclipse, beyond the laws and observations of the motions of the planets, then happened; at which event, Quamvutius, the emperor, was very much moved."