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 passage in the writing of this same St. John Damascene, I think it is pretty clear, that he regarded Mahomet as the great Antichrist: this passage is in his Homily for Holy Saturday (tom. i ii. p 832). "" that is, "Let us hold God's enemies in detestation, Every man that confesseth not that Christ is the Son of God and Lord, is ANTICHRIST. If any man shall say that Christ is a servant, let us stop our ears, knowing that he is a liar, and the truth is not in him." Now who was it that said that Christ was not the Son of God, nor the Lord, but merely a servant of God? It was Mahomet in his Alcoran; and the learned Dominican editor of St. John Damascene, in his note to this passage, at the foot of the page, appends these words: "" Now St. John Damascene was an eyewitness of the first commencement of Mahometan desolation; and although he was not in the same position that we are in the nineteenth century, to take a general survey of Mahometan history in all its enormity, and in all its hideous conformity with the descriptions of the Prophets, he could scarcely have used words more expressive to