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between them.
2. Even if it be argued that the Hebrew form Hmdh
(read himdah) is an abstract substantive meaning "desire,
lust, covetousness, and praise," the argument would be again
in favor of our thesis; for then the Hebrew form would, in
etymology, be exactly equivalent in meaning and in similarity
to, or rather identity with, the Arabic form Himdah. In
whatever sense you wish to take the tetrogram Hmdh, its
relation to Ahmed and Ahmedism is decisive, and has nothing
to do with Jesus and Jesuism! If St. Jerome, and before
him the authors of the Septuagint, had preserved intact the
Hebrew form Hmdh, instead of putting down the Latin "cupi-
ditas" or the Seek "euthymia," probably the translators
appointed by King James I would have also reproduced the
original form in the Authorized Version, and the Bible
Society have followed suit in their translations into Islamic
2. Even if it be argued that the Hebrew form Hmdh
(read himdah) is an abstract substantive meaning "desire,
lust, covetousness, and praise," the argument would be again
in favor of our thesis; for then the Hebrew form would, in
etymology, be exactly equivalent in meaning and in similarity
to, or rather identity with, the Arabic form Himdah. In
whatever sense you wish to take the tetrogram Hmdh, its
relation to Ahmed and Ahmedism is decisive, and has nothing
to do with Jesus and Jesuism! If St. Jerome, and before
him the authors of the Septuagint, had preserved intact the
Hebrew form Hmdh, instead of putting down the Latin "cupi-
ditas" or the Seek "euthymia," probably the translators
appointed by King James I would have also reproduced the
original form in the Authorized Version, and the Bible
Society have followed suit in their translations into Islamic