[136] 1 Cor. xi. 26.
[137] 1 Cor. i. 17.
[138] Gal. i. 13.
[139] St. Matt. xxviii. 15.
[140] Gal. i. 15, 16.
[141] Acts xxviii. 24.
[142] Acts xxvi. 8.
[143] It must always be remembered that Mohammed learned the best of his morals and his theology from Jews or Christians.
[144] In answer to this theory of development or afterthought it may be said that all the early records, the writings of the Apostles and Evangelists, the writings of the Apostolic fathers, are clear about the Godhead of Christ. It was comparatively late that doubters arose, heretics like Cerinthus and Theodotus, and philosophic Christians like Justin Martyr, Clement of Alexandria, and Origen, accepting the gospel indeed, but diluting it by their reasonings upon it.
[145] The arguments here considered are those propounded in Lecky's "History of European Morals."