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ACCORDING TO THE KORAN.
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stratagems. When God said unto Jesus, Verily, I will cause thee to die[1], and I will take thee up unto me, and I will deliver thee from the Unbelievers; and I will place those who follow thee, above the unbelievers, until the day of resurrection: then unto me shall ye return, and I will judge between you of that concerning which ye disagree. Moreover, as for the Infidels, I will punish them with a grievous punishment, in this world, and in that which is ta come; and there shall be none to help them. But they who believe, and do that which is right, he shall give them their reward; for God loveth not the wicked doers. These signs and this prudent admonition, do we rehearse unto thee. Verily the likeness of Jesus in the sight of God, is as the likeness of Adam: he created him out of the

  1. This is at variance with the subsequent account of Jesus' translation to Heaven, and one of those palpable and gross contradictions with which the Koran abounds.