ey may sell it for some mean price."(66) This verse was revealed
with reference to the divines and leaders of the Jewish Faith. These
divines, in order to please the rich, acquire worldly emoluments, and give
vent to their envy and misbelief, wrote a number of treatises, refuting
the claims of Muhammad, supporting their arguments with such evidences as
it would be improper to mention, and claimed that these arguments were
derived from the text of the Pentateuch.

The same may be witnessed today. Consider how abundant are the
denunciations written by the foolish divines of this age against this most
wondrous Cause! How vain their imaginings that these calumnies are in
conformity with the verses of God's sacred Book, and in consonance with
the utterances of men of discernment!

Our purpose in relating these things is to warn you that were they to
maintain that those verses wherein the signs referred to in the Gospel are
mentioned have been perverted, were they to reject them, and cling instead
to other verses and traditions, you should know that their words were
utter falsehood and sheer calumny. Yea "corruption" of the text, in the
sense We have referred to, hath been actually effected in particular
instances. A few of these We have mentioned, that it may become manifest
to every discerning observer that unto a few untutored holy Men hath been
given the mastery of human learning, so that the malevolent opposer may
cease to contend that a certain verse doth indicate "corruption" of the
text, and insinuate that We, through lack of knowledge, have made mention
of such things. Moreover, most of the verses that indicate "corruption" of
the text have been revealed with reference to the Jewish people, were ye
to explore the isles of Qur'anic Revelation.

We have also heard a number of the foolish of the earth assert that the
genuine text of the heavenly Gospel doth not exist amongst the Christians,
that it hath ascended unto heaven. How grievously they have erred! How
oblivious of the fact that such a statement imputeth the gravest injustice
and tyranny to a gracious and loving Providence! How could God, when once
the Day-star of the beauty of Jesus had disappeared from the sight of His
people, and ascended unto the fourth heaven, cause His holy Book, His most
great testimony amongst His creatures, to disappear also? What would be
left to that people to cling to from the setting of the day-star of Jesus
until the rise of the s