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 perity cease, and his name shall be utterly rooted out.

In the thirty-seventh verse, the Prophet continues his description of Antichrist; "And he shall make no account of the God of his fathers." This was fulfilled when Mahomet renounced the worship of the true God, the ever adorable Trinity in Unity, who was the God of his forefathers (however little He was known or worshipped by them) as He is the God of all the earth, the only true God, blessed for evermore. "And he shall follow the lust of women." Our version, in this rendering of the sacred text, follows the Septuagint and the Latin Vulgate; and it is not possible (admitting this to be the accurate rendering of the original) to look for a more accurate description of Mahomet or Mahometanism. But the Anglican version following the Hebrew text renders it thus: "Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any God." And Bishop Newton, with his usual hatred of Catholicity, and his dexterous ingenuity in turning the words of Scripture against the Church of God, interpreting, as we do also, this portion of Daniel's prophecy as relating to Antichrist, applies it to what he considers to be that Antichrist, namely, the assumed corruptions of the Greek and Latin Churches;