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    be as little informed upon this point as I have been ; and therefore I send for your approbation an extract from the Report of the Scottish Missionary Society , for 1823-4 , containing * a statement of the fact . Let it be observed ,

    that the Mahometans are equally sincere in their hatred of Paul and their esteem of Jesus ; whereas the writers alluded to amongst ourselves , decry Paul in order ultimately to discredit his and our Lord and Master . PAULINUS .

    Nahomedan Fables against St . Paul . It is well known that the Mahomedans allow Christ Jesus to have been a True Prophet , and the Gospel or " Angeel " to have been a revelation from heaven ; but they allege that it has been corrupted , and they ascribe the corruption of it

    particularly to the Apostle Paul . One day , when the Missionaries , in conversation with a learned Mollah , happened to speak of the conversion of Paul , the Mollah exclaimed , " Paul ! that was the very man who corrupted the Angeel—one of the worst of men , and most infamous of characters . "

    The following is the account which is given in one of their books , the " Rawsattus Affa , " of the manner in which the Apostle ,, who is there called Yunnus , corrupted the gospel" For about eighty years after the ascension of Christ , the Nazarenes walked

    in the right way ; but , after this , one Yunnus , a Jew , led them astray into the paths of blasphemy and error . He appeared in the costume of a travelling devotee , and lodged for about four months

    m the house of a Christian . He shewed his cursed face to nobody , but gave himself up entirely to devotional exercises ; aud having , by this means , secured the confidence of the Nazarenes , he requested them to send three of their most learned

    mec , to whose word they could trust , as lie had a mysterious revelation from God , which he wished to declare to each of them separately . _ " To the first lie said . ' Dost thou

    acknowledge that Jesus raised the dead to life ? '' The wise man answered , ' I do . ' *— ' And dost thou suppose that these works could be performed by any person , without the operation of the Most High <* od ? ' The other answered . ' No . '— < Be

    assured then / said Paul , « that Jesus is tl Lord of the world , who came to this ^» "th , and , having finished his work , relu . nu ' d to heaven / . 4 h > the . second wise man he proposed similar questions ; and , having received s"ni ] ar answers , he said , * Be assured

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    that Jesus is the Son of God , whom he gent into the world , and again received into heaven / < c Having received the same acknowledgments from the last of the sages , heaverred that \ Jesus was the Lord of the earth , and , as such , had power to disappear when his enemies formed the design of-putting him to death .

    ' * After making known these reveries , he retired into his cell , shut the door ,, killed himself the same night , and took the way to hell . Next day , when the sages were called , they had each a different report to make of the Revelation from Jesus , as communicated to them , by Paul .

    The people exclaimed , ' Let , us hear Paul ourselves ! ' They , accordingly , repaired to the cell ; but , riudkig him dead , the consequence was , that Christians were divided into three sects , each of which took its creed from the report of one of the sages . "

    Ill rehearsing this fabulous story , the Mahomedans about Astrachau generally contrive to embellish it with something more of the marvellous . Instead , for example , of allowing Paul to kill himself like another mortal , they furnish him with a particular kind of watery which had the power of dissolving human bodies , as the water of the ocean dissolves and holds in

    solution common salt : into this he threw himself , and instantly disappeared . In consequence of this and other fables , the name of Paul is held in such abhorrence among the Mahomedans about Astrachan , that to represent him as the author of any particular opinion would , in many cases , seal its condemnation without further evidence . —Report , 1823-4 .

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    Park Wood , Sir , June 30 , 1826 . ripHE proem of John ' s Gospel has ffl recently been the topic , in your Repository , of such critical discussion as will not fail to promote the interest

    of theology , by the progress of free inquiry . Your learned and scientific correspondent , T . F . B ., ( pp . 20—22 , ) professing to iC fight under the banners of Lardner and Priestley , " two pre-eminent chiefs , deserves to be considered a standard-bearer of the

    foremost rank in this field of controversy . Dr . J . Jones ( XX . 725—729 ) has contributed a brief but masterly view of the different schemes of interpreting this ambiguous passage . Tie alludes to Dr . Priestley , who , in his letters with reference to Mr . Evanson ,

    observes , * It is ' possible'that the Apostle John might have heard of the

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    Mr . Evans on the Proem of John * * Gospel . 407

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1826, page 407, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2550/page/27/