The Holy War — Page 136
136 is the servant who has been sent. If Dr. [Henry Martyn Clark] sahib can prove any other meanings for this ا ی ج ا گ ی ج � [ bheij a -giya —one who is sent] word anywhere else beside the disputed verses, then he can claim from us any recompense that he desires in return. It should be clear to Dr. sahib that the words bheij a -giya as well as وصخمص [ makh sus —sanc- tified] have been used with reference to a human being. It would be sheer usurpation that now some other meaning should be given to these words. Nevertheless, if the Christians had all been in agreement regard- ing their principle of faith, and no group or sect from among them had remained outside of this agreement, then they could still have had some reason to be proud but the situation is that now Dr. sahib does not even have this much in his hand. I ask Dr. sahib to state whether from among your various sects, the Unitarian sect recognizes Jesus as God? Is that sect not obliged to adhere to the same Bible that you are bound to? Is that sect unaware of the prophecies that you are aware of ? So here, on the one hand, we have Jesus, the Messiah, while trying to prove his innocence of the charge of blasphemy, saying as recorded in John 10 that he was no different in being referred to as god from any of the others so mentioned in the Bible, then he also declares his lack of knowledge that he does not know anything about the Day of Judgement as to when it will take place, and then he also does not like that anyone should call him good, and again and again he says that I have been sent by God Almighty and counsels his disciples that they should take the prophecies and other such matters to mean exactly what the Jews take them to mean and to listen to, and heed, their words. And then, on the other hand, we see that the miracles of the Messiah are just like those of the other Prophets; nay rather, to some extent less than them by virtue of that story of the pool—which Dr. sahib must know well—by taking a bath in which people used to be cured of those same types of illnesses as is mentioned regarding the Messiah. And fur- thermore, we see that there is discord in Christendom itself. While one