healed every sickness and disease, they cast out devils from the children of Adam, they raised the dead in the name of the Christ; they brought to nought the idols and the worship of Satan from among the children of Adam. The Light and the Truth of God appeared amongst all nations, and they led them to the worship and obedience of God. Verily they were twelve poor men, weak, strangers among men, without possessions, without authority in the world, with no property to bribe with, and no knowledge and no relationships with which to make claims upon anyone.
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Lord of the children of Israel ...much knowledge ...from them ...the

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children of Israel called the people; they did not make any reservations amongst themselves between what they said and what they taught. If their cause was from God, their religion would last, and it would be established to them, but if their cause were not of God, God would destroy it, and would not establish it to them. Be not of those who oppose and strive against the cause of God, and verily they have no power therein. Verily before them others from among the children of Israel came out to call to another religion. God brought their work and doctrine to nought. Most of the children of Israel were pleased with this saying of their brethren, and they left the Apostles and their doctrines. This was all from God alone. If the cause of the Christ were not true, and if He were not God of God, the cause of the Apostles would not have been established, nor their doctrine, and they could not have led the nations, who had never worshipped God. But the Christ strengthened the Apostles by the Holy Ghost, and they wrought all signs, and by this they led the people to the light of God and His worship. Their cause was established in all the world; they being strangers and poor,

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and God raised their fame * * * * * * * * * by His Word He created all things * * * * * * * * * God said by the tongue of the prophet David also about the Christ, " Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten Thee. Ask of Me, and I will give