A key to the Revelation of St. John (Volume 1) - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1829 Excerpt: ... head of whom was this King " Abaddon;" but the liberator could not be the same, in this case, as the person liberated; and, therefore, the Arabian Impostor himself could not have been the man, immediately pointed out by these emblems. He then, who was the first mover in this business of deception,--who instructed Mahomet so far in the principles of the Christian and Jewish religions, as to enable him to select those parts of both which best suited the purpose of his fabrication,--and from whom he received other essential assistance in the composition of his Koran,--he must be the Instrument of evil here anticipated by the Prophet. By his knowledge of these principles, and by his power of distorting them, and of forming erroneous comparisons and combinations;--he might be of singular service in the framing of a System, which should "change the truth of God into a lie;" which should contain something of both the dispensations he had ordained, and yet be altogether dissimilar to either. And such a man was Boheira, or Sergius, a Nestorian monk at Bosra; who appears, from an early period of the life of Mahomet, to have attached himself to him. From him did the crafty Arabian receive the most important hints for his pretended mission; by him, in all probability, was the project of that mission first suggested; with him was a correspondence artfully maintained for the purpose of promoting it; and to his intimations do. many parts of the Koran itself owe their existence I have been induced to form the opinion, that Boheira frst suggested the project of Mohomet's imposture, from the testimony of the Mohammedan historians themselves, as cited by the learned Authors of the Modern Universal History;--"Upon Mohammed's first approach to Boheira, "the monk observed a sor...