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"Messenger of the Covenant" and the Dominator [as the
Vulgate translates the Hebrew Adon (Mal. iii. 1)], why does
he not openly say so? If he courageously declared that it
was not he himself but another Prophet who was that
'Dominator' it must, indeed, have been a criminal hand
which erased and effaced the words of Jesus from the original
Gospel. At all events, it is the Gospels that are responsible
for this ambiguity and obscurity. It cannot but be described
as diabolical tampering with the text that has misled billions
of Christians for so many centuries. Jesus, whatever he
believed he represented, ought to have, to say the least,
shown himself straightforward, and to have frankly declared:
"John is the Eliah who was sent as a precursor to prepare
the way for me!" Or if such was not the case, then he could
have made the following declaration: "John is the Eliah who
was sent to prepare the way for Prophet Muhammad." Perhaps this is
Vulgate translates the Hebrew Adon (Mal. iii. 1)], why does
he not openly say so? If he courageously declared that it
was not he himself but another Prophet who was that
'Dominator' it must, indeed, have been a criminal hand
which erased and effaced the words of Jesus from the original
Gospel. At all events, it is the Gospels that are responsible
for this ambiguity and obscurity. It cannot but be described
as diabolical tampering with the text that has misled billions
of Christians for so many centuries. Jesus, whatever he
believed he represented, ought to have, to say the least,
shown himself straightforward, and to have frankly declared:
"John is the Eliah who was sent as a precursor to prepare
the way for me!" Or if such was not the case, then he could
have made the following declaration: "John is the Eliah who
was sent to prepare the way for Prophet Muhammad." Perhaps this is