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Crap, 2 WM KORAN. rs no fear on them, neither thall they be grieved. The Jews fay, The Chriftians are grounded on nothing *; and, the Chriftians fay, The Jews are greunded on nothing: yet they both read the fcriptures. So likewife fay they who know not the /eripture, according to their faying. But Gop fhall judge between them on the day of the refurrection, concerning that about which they. xow difagree. Who is more unjuft than he who prohibiteth the temples of Gop », that bis name thould be remembered therein, and who hafteth to deftroy them? -Thofe) men ‘cannot enter therein, but with fear.: they fhall haye fhaime in. this world, and in the next.a grievous punifhment,. To Gop belong- eh the eaft and the weit; therefore whitherfoever ye turn your felyes to. pray, there .is the face of Gop ; for Gop is omniprefent and omnifcient. They fay, Goo hath, begotten children‘: Gop forbid! To him belongeth whatever is in heaven, and on earth ; all is poffeffed. by him, the Creator of heaven and earth ; and when he decreeth.a thing, he only faith unto it, Be, jand) it-is:,. And. they..who know not the /criptures fay, Unlefs, Gop fpeak unto us; or thou thew usa fign, we will not believe. . So {aid thofe be- fore them, according to their faying : their hearts refemble each other. We have already fthewn manifeft figns unto people who firmly believe; we have fent thee in truth, a bearer of good tidings, and a preacher 3. and thou fhalt not be queftioned concerning the companions of hell.. But the Jews will not be pleafed with thee, neither the Chriftians, until thou follow their religion ;, fay; The dire&tion of Gop is the. srue dire@tion, And verily if thou follow their defires, after the knowledge which hath been given. thee,, thou fhalt find no patron or protector againft Gop. They to whom we have given the book of the Korux, and who read it with its true reading, - they believe therein sand whoever believeth not therein, they thall perifh. QO -children of Isragu, jremember, my). favour wherewith I have fayoured you, and that I have ‘preferred you before’ all nations ; and dread the day wherein ve foul fhall not make fatisfaction for another foul, neither, fhail any compenfation be accepted from them, nor fhall any interceffion .avail, neither fhall they be helped, Remember when the Logp tried ApRaHAM by: certain words *, which he fulfilled: Gop faid, Verily I will confticute thee Sata 8 $1 04 eee " RA a
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°* ‘The Jews fay, the Chriftians are grounded on nothing, Bc.) The Fees and Chrifiians are here accufed of denying the truth of each other’s re- _ ligion, notwithitanding they read the foriptures: Whereas the’Pentateuch bears teftimony to Jesus, _ and the Gofpel bears teRimony to Majer?
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« They fay Gow hath bezotten children.) This is fpoken mot only of jthe Chriftians, and of the Jews (for they are accufed of holding Ozair, or Ezra, to be the fon of Gop,) but alfo the pa gan. Arabs, who imagined, the angels to be daughters of Gop. ;
- When the Lorn tried Abraham, &-.] Gop
tried Abrabars chiefly .by commanding him to leave'hisnative country, and to offer his fon. But the.commentators fuppofethe trialhere meant re- lated only.to fome particular ceremonies, fach as circumcilion, pilgrimage to the Caaba, feveral rites of purification, and the'like 3.
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