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of the Second and Fourth Gospels. In fact, many
important teachings contained in one Gospel were
unknown to the Churches, which did not possess it.
Consequently, there could possibly be no uniformity of
worship, discipline, authority, belief, commandments,
and law in the Early Church, just as there is none now.
All that we can gather from the literature of the New
Testament is that the Christians in the Apostolical age
had the Jewish Scriptures for their Bible, with a Gospel
containing, the true revelation made to Jesus (pbuh) , and
that its substance was precisely the same as announced
in this Seraphic Canticle-namely, Islam and Ahmadiya.
The special mission assigned by Allah to His Apostle
Jesus (pbuh) was to revert or convert the Jews from their
perversion and erroneous belief in a Davidic Messiah,
and to convince them that the Kingdom of God upon
earth which they were anticipating was not to come
through a Messiah of the Davidic dynasty, but of the
family of Ishmael (pbuh) whose name was Ahmad, the
true equivalent of which name the Greek Gospels have
preserved in the forms “Eudoxos” and “Periclytos” and
not “Paraclete” as the Churches have shaped it. It is
understood that the “Periclyte” will form one of the
principal topics in this series of articles. But whatever
be the signification of the “Paraclete” (John xiv. 16, 26;
xx. 26 and xvi. 7) or its true etymological orthography,
there still remains the shining truth that Jesus (pbuh) left
behind him and unfinished religion to be completed and
perfected by what John (ubi supra) and Luke (xxiv. 49)
describe as “Spirit.” This “Spirit” is not a god, a third
of the three in a trinity of gods, but the holy Spirit of
Ahmad (pbuh) , which existed like the Spirits of other John
Prophets in Paradise (cf. the Gospel of Barnabas). If
the Spirit of Jesus (pbuh) , on the testimony of an Apostle,
John (xvii, 5, etc.), existed before he became a man,