would fain rob Jesus Christ of the glory of having subjugated idolatry, and under pretence of zeal for the unity of God, he denied the ever blessed and adorable Trinity, in whose name Christ had commanded all men to be baptized, and on the throne of the everlasting Godhead he raise himself: for it is Satan, not the true Triune God of revelation, that Mahometanism adores. It is Satan simulating the true God, "similis ero Altissimo," as the Prophet had foretold of him. Heretofore he had substituted idols in place of the true God, now he substitutes himself: how naturally, then, does this fact bring us to the concluding words of the thirty-seventh verse, "For he shall rise up against all things." The Alcoran subverted every existing system, whether true or false. It subverted truth, to make way for falsehood; it subverted all pre-existing falsehoods to make way for a new, a greater, and a more destructive falsehood, than any that had ever heretofore deceived the children of men.
And now the Prophet goes on to describe the character of this falsehood, and so he rouses the attention of the reader by the emphatic use of the word "But." "But," says Daniel, "he shall worship the god Maozim in his place; and a god whom his fathers knew not, shall he worship with gold, and silver, and precious
