Robert Taylor

“7.“ It is notorious that forged writings, under the names of the Apostles, were in circulation almost from the apostolic age.—See 2 Thess. ii. 2. 7. “The tracing of a writing up to the apostolic age, would therefore, afford no presumption of its genuineness: the name of an Apostle is no proof that the writing is not the composition of an impostor.”
― Robert Taylor, Syntagma of the Evidences of the Christian Religion

“A regular succession of the most learned and intelligent of the Christian Fathers, from and in the apostolic age, steadily maintained, that Christ never had any real existence as a man; that he was merely a phantom or hobgoblin, and that all the business of his crucifixion and miracles took place only in a vision. These, from the Greek word, which expresses their sentiment, are called the Docetæ, or Docetian Fathers, as opposed to the Ebionite, or Beggar Heretics, who maintained the contrary hypothesis, that Jesus had a real existence.”
― Robert Taylor, Syntagma of the Evidences of the Christian Religion