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22 command him. And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him. ” ∗ This that had been written in the scriptures was bound to be fulfilled, otherwise the words of God’s elect, Moses and Jesus, would have proved false, as it had been written, “When a prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously. ”† The words of the elect were, however, literally fulfilled, and God raised a prophet like unto Moses from among the brethren of the Israelites, that is, from among the descendants of Abraham’s other son, Ishmael, by means of whom the kingdom of Divine guidance was taken from the Israelites and was given to the Muslims, and the stone that the builders had rejected became the head of the corner, and whosoever fell on him (that is, whosoever attacked him) was broken, and on whomsoever he fell (that is, whomsoever he attacked) was ground into powder, and whosoever did not hearken to his words, God did require it of him. Jesus cannot be that prophet for he had himself said that that prophet would come after he (Jesus) had been crucified. Nor can it mean the Church, for the Church is not a prophet and the scriptures say that the Promised One would be a prophet who, like Moses, will manifest the ∗ Deut. xviii: 17—19. † Deut. xviii: 22.