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 The following are some of the specimens that may be adduced. The first promise of a Messiah is assumed by Mohammed; the Koran, chapter 2, states, "Hereatter there shall come unto you a direction from me," which the Moslems believe was fulfilled at several times by the ministry of several Prophets, from Adam himself who was the first, to Mohammed who was the last.

The prediction of Moses respecting the prophet whom the Lord would raise up from among their brethren like to himself, though pre-occupied and attributed to Jesus by the inspired writers, is challenged as belonging to Mohammed. And, again, when Moses blessed the children of Israel before his death, he said, "The Lord came from Sinai and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten