of the Septuagint, or the "Mahuzzim" of the Hebrew, a still more remarkable and wonderful coincidence between it and the name of the False Prophet? Write it Mahomet, Mohammed, or Muhammed, it cannot fail to remind us of Maozim and Mahuzzim. And if we would pursue such coincidences a little further, we may find an equally striking one between the Maozim and Mahuzzim of the Prophet, and the Muezzim[1] of the Mahometan mosques.
This coincidence had often struck the writer of this treatise, but he was glad to find that it is recognised and enforced by the learned author of a very remarkable French work on Prophecy, "La Fin des Temps," to which the reader has been already referred; in page xiii of his Preface it is emphatically alluded to, as also in the body of that learned work. And if the reader will procure that work, he will sec how ably the writer treats it.
Bishop Newton, as usual, endeavours to turn the word to his own purpose, which, we need not say, is one hostile to Catholicity. According to him, Mahuzzim signifying forces or fortifications, and Antichrist signifying the pope, as in the Greek and Latin Churches
- ↑ The Muezzim amongat the Mahometans are criers, who ascend the minarets of their mosques to call the people to pray to the God of Mahomet.
