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 deplorable event took place in the year 615; and two years before this it was that Mahomet first published his famous Koran, thus fulfilling, as we shall soon see, the prediction of the blessed St. Theodore Siceotes.—(See at length, The Life of St. Theodore Siceotes, by the Monk Eleusius; also, Surius, April 22.)

Let us now examine how far the character of Mahomet agreed with St. Paul's description of the Man of Sin. The apostle calls him "the Son of Perdition." The elect are called in scripture "the Children of God," "Sons of God," and "heirs of everlasting life." It is not wonderful, therefore, that the apostle should call Antichrist a "Son of Perdition," a "Man of Sin." Such a name nightly belongs to him, for he is the child of the devil; he springs from the source of perdition, and his ways are those of sin and wickedness. As Christ is termed by all the Prophets "the Just" and "the Righteous" above all others, so Antichrist would naturally be the very type of sin and injustice, and his teaching would open wide the gates of perdition. Now what heretic has ever arisen in the world, of whom this was so true, as it was of Mahomet? Other heretics retained at least the outward profession of Christianity, the belief and use of the sacraments ordained by Christ. Many