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 ported. We allow that the sentence is for death generally, without particularizing the mode, yet in the recapitulation of the penal laws, from the particular connection in which the passage occurs, it may be fairly inferred that stoning to death was the original punishment for such offence.

In the New Testament the Musulmans accuse the Christians of corruption in those passages which relate to the Comforter ; for the Koran broadly affirms, "Jesus the son of Mary, said, O children of Israel, verily I am the Apostle of God sent unto you, confirming the law which was delivered before me, and bringing good tidings of an Apostle who shall come after me, and whose name shall be Ahmed." The Mohammedan Doctors teach, that by the Paraclete, their Prophet is intended, and no other; though the context plainly proves the