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 phyrogenitus (ibid, pp. 92, 93), writes it and ; and Cedrenus adopts very much the same mode (Hist. Comp. p. 738, tom. 1.):  We have, therefore, in these four authors no fewer than five different modes of writing the name of Mahomet:. But it is evident every one of these are more or less an approximation to the original Arabic name of the great impostor: and although used by Greek authors, they are not the proper Greek version of his name; and so Cedrenus, Zonaras, and Euthymius, when interpreting the mystical number 666, translate the name of the false Prophet into the word, which we have already given in the body of this work, as the Hellenic version of his ill-omened name Modyerse.—(See Cornelius à Lapide, Comment. in Apocalypsin, cap. xiii. p. 231; and Salmeron, in his Præludia in Apocalypsin.)

There was perhaps not one of the ancient fathers, who had a more intense devotion to the great mystery of our Blessed Lord's Incarnation, than that great light of the Eastern Church, St. John Damascene. This is evident in all his writings, especially in his great and admirable treatises in defence of holy images, impugned, as they were, by the Iconoclast heretics. This divinely-illuminated father, com-