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self as the hero in some great future drama of the world.
Jacob prophesied about "the Prophet of Allah," (1) Moses
about a prophet who would come after him with the Law,
and Israel was exhorted to "obey him; (2) Haggai foretold
Ahmad (3); Malachi predicted the coming of the "Messenger
of the Covenant" and of Elijah; (4) but none of the prophets
ever did prophesy about his own second coming into the
world. What is extremely abnormal in the case of Jesus
is that he is made to pretend his identity with "the Son of
Man," yet he is unable to do in the least degree the work
that the foretold "Son of Man" was expected to accomplish!
To declare to the Jews under the grip of Pilate that he
was "the Son of Man," and then to pay tribute to Caesar;
and to confess that "the Son of Man had nowhere to lay
his head;" and then to postpone the deliverance of
Jacob prophesied about "the Prophet of Allah," (1) Moses
about a prophet who would come after him with the Law,
and Israel was exhorted to "obey him; (2) Haggai foretold
Ahmad (3); Malachi predicted the coming of the "Messenger
of the Covenant" and of Elijah; (4) but none of the prophets
ever did prophesy about his own second coming into the
world. What is extremely abnormal in the case of Jesus
is that he is made to pretend his identity with "the Son of
Man," yet he is unable to do in the least degree the work
that the foretold "Son of Man" was expected to accomplish!
To declare to the Jews under the grip of Pilate that he
was "the Son of Man," and then to pay tribute to Caesar;
and to confess that "the Son of Man had nowhere to lay
his head;" and then to postpone the deliverance of