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CHAPTER VI.



THE HISTORY OF JESUS IN THE LANGUAGE OF THE KORAN, WITH NOTES AND REFLECTIONS.

In relating the history of our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, it has been thought adviseable to use the words of the Koran[1], that the grossness of the error might appear from its own statements, its agreement with spurious Apocryphal pieces be fairly ascertained, and how little of genuine Christianity enters into its composition. To avoid repetition, of various passages recording the same event, one only has been retained as sufficient for the purpose. Our selection comprises the substance of the life of Jesus, in the order of the

  1. The chapters of the Koran in which allusion is made to Jesus are, chapters 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. 19. 23. 33. 43. 57. 61.