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On the other hand, the proselytes from the non-Semitic
"Gentiles" to the "new way" read the Old Testament in its
Greek Version of the "Seventy." As a matter of course, the
scholars of the Greek philosophy and the ex-ministers of the
Greek mythology, once converted to the new faith and with
the Septuagint before them, could have no difficulty in the
production of a "New Testament" as a completion or a con-
tinuation of the old one.
How the simple Gospel of the Nazarene Messenger of
Allah became a source of two mighty currents of the Semitic
and the Hellenic thought; and how the Greek polytheistic
thought finally overpowered the monotheistic Semitic creed
under the most tyrannical Greco-Latin Emperors, and under
the most intolerant and superstitious Trinitarian Bishops of
74
"Gentiles" to the "new way" read the Old Testament in its
Greek Version of the "Seventy." As a matter of course, the
scholars of the Greek philosophy and the ex-ministers of the
Greek mythology, once converted to the new faith and with
the Septuagint before them, could have no difficulty in the
production of a "New Testament" as a completion or a con-
tinuation of the old one.
How the simple Gospel of the Nazarene Messenger of
Allah became a source of two mighty currents of the Semitic
and the Hellenic thought; and how the Greek polytheistic
thought finally overpowered the monotheistic Semitic creed
under the most tyrannical Greco-Latin Emperors, and under
the most intolerant and superstitious Trinitarian Bishops of
74