カイザリアのエウセビオスを含むキリスト教擁護派は、長い間プルタルコスのパーンの死の物語を重要視してきた。ギリシャ語の "all "は "pan "でもあることから、"すべての悪魔 "が滅んだという洒落となっていたからだ<ref>Lane Fox, Robin, 1988, Pagans and Christians, London, Penguin Books, page130, isbn:0-14-009737-6</ref> 。
ラブレーの『パンタグリュエル』第4巻(16世紀)において、巨人パンタグリュエルはプルタルコスの語った物語を回想した後、この発表は実際にはほぼ同じ時期(ティベリウス治世の終わり頃)に行われたイエス・キリストの死についてだったと考え、「彼はギリシャ語で合法的にパーンと言うことができる、彼は我々のすべてであるから」と名前の適切さを指摘した<ref>François Rabelais, Fourth Book of Pantagruel (''Le Quart Livre''), Chap. 28 [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Fourth_Book/Chapter_XXVIII].</ref>。
In [[Rabelais]]' ''[[Fourth Book of Pantagruel]]'' (16th century), the Giant [[Pantagruel]], after recollecting the tale as told by Plutarch, opines that the announcement was actually about the death of [[Jesus Christ]], which did take place at about the same time (towards the end of [[Tiberius]]' reign), noting the aptness of the name: "for he may lawfully be said in the Greek tongue to be Pan, since he is our all. For all that we are, all that we live, all that we have, all that we hope, is him, by him, from him, and in him."<ref>François Rabelais, Fourth Book of Pantagruel (''Le Quart Livre''), Chap. 28 [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Fourth_Book/Chapter_XXVIII].</ref> In this interpretation, Rabelais was following [[Guillaume Postel]] in his ''De orbis terrae concordia''.<ref>Guillaume Postel, ''De orbis terrae concordia'', Book 1, Chapter 7.</ref>
The 19th-century visionary [[Anne Catherine Emmerich]], in a twist echoed nowhere else, claims that the phrase "the Great Pan" was actually a demonic epithet for [[Jesus Christ]], and that "Thamus, or Tramus" was a watchman in the port of [[Nicaea]], who, at the time of the other spectacular events surrounding Christ's death, was then commissioned to spread this message, which was later garbled "in repetition."<ref>{{cite book |last1=Emmerich |first1=Anne Catherine |title=The Life of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, volume IV |date=2006 |publisher=Saint Benedict Press |location=Charlotte, NC |isbn=9781905574131 |page=309 |url=https://tandfspi.org/ACE_vol_04/ACE_4_0301_out.html#ACE_4_p0309 |access-date=16 May 2021}}</ref>