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27 command of God and it would be a sin on my part were I to deny the fact. " Again speaking about other prophets as he says, "Among those favours (which they enjoyed) were prophecies and predictions in view of which those former Prophets were called Nabis. " ( Eik Ghala t i K a Iz a la ). A study of these quotations will show that the charge brought against the Promised Messiah as by his enemies was his alleged claim to be a Prophet with a new law. This charge the Promised Messiah as insistently denied. What, he said, he claimed was that he was a Nabi in the sense that knowledge of future events was frequently granted to him, and that it was in this sense that the title of Nabi had been conferred upon Prophets of old. The above circumstances offer indeed a close parallel to those of the first Messiah, but in such a parallelism, correspondence to those followers of the first Messiah, who after his death began to call him the 'son of God' in the sense wrongly imputed to him by his enemies, was to be sought in those followers of the Promised Messiah as , who thought him to be a Prophet with a new Law, that being the charge