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tament, by Muhammadan controversialists of the present day is, that the Christians have lost the original Gospels and that our present book contains merely the Hadís, or traditions, of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. It is, therefore, necessary to correct their common idea that the Gospel was revealed to Jesus in the same manner as the Qurán is said to have been given to Muhammad; to show that it was the special office of the Holy Spirit to give the New Testament Scriptures, and that they came to man by the same method of inspiration whereby the Old Testament writings were given to the Prophets of old, the Qurán being an exception to God's usual method of giving inspired writings to his Prophets.[1]
- ↑ Vide 2 Tim. iii. 16: πὰσα γραφὴ Θεόπνευστος "all scripture is God-breathed" (divinatus inspirata, Vulg.), which Dean Alford says is the idea common to the Jews. Vide Jos. contra Apion. i. 7.
