I had better said, the blasphemy — resolved to create the human race, he took into his hands a mass of earth, the same whence all mankind were to be formed, and in which they after a manner pre-existed ; and, having then divided the clod into two equal... Who is the heir? - Page 103by Edward James Mortimer Collins - 1865Full view - About this book
| 1869 - 796 pages
...— I had better said, the blasphemy — resolved to create the toman race, he took into his hands » mass of earth, the same whence all mankind were to...adding, ' And these to paradise, and I care not.' " Commentary would here be superfluous. But in this we have before us the adequate idea of predestination,... | |
| William Gifford Palgrave - 1865 - 502 pages
...admiring and approving Wahhabees in Nejed. Accordingly, when God — so runs the tradition ; I had better said, the blasphemy— resolved to create the human...heaven, adding, "and these to Paradise, and I care not." Commentary would here be superfluous. But in this we have before us the adequate idea of predestination,... | |
| 1865 - 1046 pages
...Mohammadan traditions) to the following effect : — " When God — so runs the tradition ; I had better said, the blasphemy — resolved to create the human...adding, ' and these to Paradise, and I care not.'" The error into which he has here fallen springs mainly from a mistake in reading the Arabic negative.... | |
| 1865 - 568 pages
...tradition ; I had better said, the blasphemy — resolved to create the human race, Ho took into His bauds a mass of earth, the same whence all mankind were...adding, 'and these to Paradise, and I care not.'" The error into which he has here fallen springs mainly from a mistake in reading the Arabic negative.... | |
| 1865 - 654 pages
...when God " resolved to create the human race, He took into His hands a mass of earth . . . and having divided the clod into two equal portions, He threw...not ; ' and projected the other half into heaven, addin<r, 'and these to Paradise, and I care not.'" Such were undoubtedly the tenets of Mahomet; and... | |
| 1865 - 590 pages
...clod into two equal portions, He threw the one half into hell, saying, " These to eternal fire, and 1 care not ;" and projected the other half into heaven, adding, "and these to Paradise, and I care not." ' — Ibid. vol. ip 367. Concluding his argument — ' All we are at present concerned with is that... | |
| M. P. W. Bolton - 1866 - 284 pages
...mentions a tradition current in the East, and much admired by the Wahabees, which says that " when God resolved to create the human race, he took into his...adding, ' And these to Paradise, and I care not.' "* In this statement God is represented as ordaining the damnation of men with insouciance; whereas... | |
| William Gifford Palgrave - 1866 - 500 pages
...which they after a manner preexisted ; and having then divided the clod into two equal por-r tions, He threw the- one half into hell, saying, " These...adding, " and these to Paradise, and I care not." Commentary would here be superfluous. But in this we have before us the adequate idea of predestination,... | |
| James Freeman Clarke - 1871 - 544 pages
...and approving Wahhabees in Nejed. " Accordingly, when God — so runs the tradition, — I had better said the blasphemy — resolved to create the human...heaven, adding, ' And these to paradise, and I care not/ " Commentary would here be superfluous. But in this we have before us the adequate idea of predestination,... | |
| James Freeman Clarke - 1871 - 552 pages
...and approving Wahhabees in Nejed. " Accordingly, when God — so runs the tradition, — I had better said the blasphemy — resolved to create the human...adding, ' And these to paradise, and I care not.' " Commentary would here be superfluous. But in this we have before us" the adequate idea of predestination,... | |
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