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 will be my assistants with respect to God? The apostles answered, We will be the assistants of God. So a part of the children of Israel believed, and a part believed not: but we strengthened those who believed, above their enemy; wherefore they became victorious over them."

The foregoing extracts form what may be termed the essence of the Christianity of the Koran. The history of the world does not supply a similar instance of misrepresentation and outrage upon fact and history. For Mohammed dealt largely in spurious and apocryphal books of the Gnostics and the ancient heretics, such as the Gospel of Christ's Infancy, the Gospel of Mary, or as it is otherwise called, The Prot-evangelion, and others, embodying the worst errors of heretical sects and substituting them for the genuine doctrines of Christianity. Here we perceive the busy and inveterate malice of Satan, co-operating with