[127] [Footnote 123: The viiith and ixth chapters of the Koran are the loudest and most vehement; and Maracci (Prodromus, part iv.p.

59-64) has inveighed with more justice than discretion against the double dealing of the impostor.] [Footnote 124: The xth and xxth chapters of Deuteronomy, with the practical comments of Joshua, David, &c., are read with more awe than satisfaction by the pious Christians of the present age.

But the bishops, as well as the rabbis of former times, have beat the drum-ecclesiastic with pleasure and success.

(Sale's Preliminary Discourse, p.

142, 143.)] [Footnote 1241: The editor's opinions on this subject may be read in the History of the Jews vol.i.p.