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of Moses, but interpreted it in such a spiritual sense that he
left it a dead letter. When he declared that hatred was the
root of murder, lust the source of fornication; that avarice
and hypocrisy were as abominable sins as idolatry; and that
mercy and charity were more acceptable than the burnt-
offerings and the strict observance of the Sabbath, he practi-
cally abolished the letter of the Law of Moses in favor of
its spiritual sense. These spurious and much interpolated
Gospels report frequent parables and references of Christ to
the Kingdom of God, and to Bar-Nasha or the Son of Man,
but they are so corrupted and distorted that they have suc-
ceeded, and still succeed, in misleading the poor Christians
to believe that by "Kingdom of God" Jesus only meant his
Church, and that he himself was the "Son of Man."
These important points will be fully discussed, if Allah
left it a dead letter. When he declared that hatred was the
root of murder, lust the source of fornication; that avarice
and hypocrisy were as abominable sins as idolatry; and that
mercy and charity were more acceptable than the burnt-
offerings and the strict observance of the Sabbath, he practi-
cally abolished the letter of the Law of Moses in favor of
its spiritual sense. These spurious and much interpolated
Gospels report frequent parables and references of Christ to
the Kingdom of God, and to Bar-Nasha or the Son of Man,
but they are so corrupted and distorted that they have suc-
ceeded, and still succeed, in misleading the poor Christians
to believe that by "Kingdom of God" Jesus only meant his
Church, and that he himself was the "Son of Man."
These important points will be fully discussed, if Allah