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(b) The Sibylline Revelation, which was composed after
the last collapse of Jerusalem by the Roman armies, states
that “the Son of Man” will appear and destroy the Roman
Empire and deliver the Believers in one God. This book was
written at least fourscore years after Jesus Christ (pbuh) .

(c) We have already given an exposition of “the
Son of Man” when we discussed the vision of Daniel, [1]
where he is presented to the Almighty and invested with
power to destroy the Roman Beast. So the visions, in the
“Assumption of Moses (pbuh) ,” in the Book of Baruch
(or Barukh), more or less similar in their views and
expectations to those described in the above-mentioned
“Revelations,” all unanimously describe the Deliverer of
the people of God as “Barnasha” or “the Son of Men,”
to distinguish him from the “Monster;” for the former is
created in the image of God and the latter transformed
into the image of Satan.

2. The Apocalyptic “Son of Man” could not be
Jesus Christ (pbuh) .

This surname, “Son of Man,” is absolutely
inapplicable to the son of Mary. All the pretensions
of the so-called “Gospels” which make the “Lamb”
of Nazareth to “catch the kings in the midst of their
voluptuous life and hurl them down into the Hell;” [2]
lack every bit of authenticity, and the distance separating
him from “the Son of Man” marching with the legions
of angels upon the clouds towards the Throne of the
Eternal is more than that of our globe from the planet
of Jupiter. He may be a “son of man” and a “messiah,”
as every Jewish king, prophet, and high priest was,
but he was not “the Son of Man” nor “the Messiah”
whom the Hebrew prophets and apocalyptists foretold.

[1] Dan. vii. See the article, “Muhammad in the Old Testament,” in the Islamic
Review for November 1938. (the author).

[2] Enoch x1vi. 4-8.