stones, and things of great price, And he shall do this to fortify Maozim with a strange god, whom he hath acknowledged, and he shall increase glory, and shall give them power over many, and shall divide the land gratis."
In these words, we have the prediction of the characteristic features of Mahometanism, the very name of its Liturgic symbols, and of its palmy prosperity and possession of the fairest provinces of the earth.
"He shall worship the god Maozim." What is Maozim? St. Jerome informs us that "Maozim," or "Mahuzzim," as Bishop Newton writes it after the Hebrew, signifies "strongholds," "forces." Now, the god of Mahomet was emphatically a god of forces, of strongholds, of physical force: his implement, both for extending his spiritual and temporal dominion, was one and the same instrument, the sword. Not the sword of the Spirit, but that sword of which Jesus Christ had declared, "Put up again the sword into its place, for all that take the sword shall perish by the sword.[1] Now, Mahomet's god was the god of the sword, even the god Maozim, or, as the Hebrews read it, the god Mahuzzim.
And who is so blind, as not to see further in this remarkable word, whether the "Maozim"
- ↑ Matthew xxvi. 52.
