B.B. Warfield, The Divine Origin of the Bible, Philadelphie : Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1991, I.432.
A dozen ignorant peasants proclaiming a crucified Jew as the founder of a new faith; bearing as the symbol of their worship an instrument which was the sign of ignominy, slavery and crime; preaching what must have seemed an absurd doctrine of humility, patient suffering and love to enemies – graces undreamed of before; demanding what must have seemed an absurd worship for one who had died like a malefactor and a slave, and making what must have seemed an absurd promise of everlasting life through one who had himself died, and that between two thieves.
B.B. Warfield, The Divine Origin of the Bible, Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1991, I.432.