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The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

CHAPTER L: Description Of Arabia And Its Inhabitants
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474-476,) Basnage, (Hist.

des Juifs, tom.vii.p.185, tom.viii.

p.
280,) and Sale, (Preliminary Discourse, p.

22, &c., 33, &c.)] [Footnote 61: In their offerings, it was a maxim to defraud God for the profit of the idol, not a more potent, but a more irritable, patron, (Pocock, Specimen, p.

108, 109.)] [Footnote 62: Our versions now extant, whether Jewish or Christian, appear more recent than the Koran; but the existence of a prior translation may be fairly inferred,--1.


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