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159of 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,