women as if they were brute beasts, and not as rational creatures, almost denying their future existence, and representing them as the mere slaves of man, and the instruments of his basest passions; while we are also carried on to the contemplation of the unnatural lusts which it is notorious are more freely indulged in by Mahometans than by any other religionists.
But there is every reason to believe that the reading given in the Vulgate, agreeing as it does with the Septuagint, a version, which our Lord Himself sanctioned, is a more accurate rendering of the Divine original: and admitting this, no one can for a moment doubt how literally Mahomet and his blasphemous system have fulfilled the words of the sacred text.
"And he shall not regard any gods." we have already shown in what sense it is true, that Mahomet "made no account of the God of his fathers," that is, of the true God, we now come to another feature of his system, which, in one sense, may be said to be a good feature, namely, his enmity to the polytheism of idolaters. "He shall not regard any God."[1] No
- ↑ In reference to this feature of Mahometaniam if is remarkable, what I find referred to by the learned Jesuit Father Salmeron, in his commentary on St, Paul's second Epistle to the Thessalonians, tom. xvi. p. 391, that St. Cyril, the Patriarch of Jerusalem, discoursing concerning Antichrist, uses these words: "Idola scilicet odio habiturus est
