3, p.
45;) but neither Mahomet, nor his followers, are sufficiently versed in languages and criticism to give any weight or color to their suspicions.
Yet the Arians and Nestorians could relate some stories, and the illiterate prophet might listen to the bold assertions of the Manichaeans.

See Beausobre, tom.i.p.

291-305.] [Footnote 90: Among the prophecies of the Old and New Testament, which are perverted by the fraud or ignorance of the Mussulmans, they apply to the prophet the promise of the Paraclete, or Comforter, which had been already usurped by the Montanists and Manichaeans, (Beausobre, Hist.
Critique du Manicheisme, tom.i.p.263, &c.;) and the easy change of letters affords the etymology of the name of Mohammed, (Maracci, tom.

i.
part i.p.

15-28.)].