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Chapter X

By the Apocalyptical “Son of man, “Muhammad” (pbuh)

is intended

In my previous article I showed that “the Son of

Man” foretold in the Jewish Apocalypses was not Jesus
Christ (pbuh) and that Jesus (pbuh) never assumed that
appellation for himself, for thus he would have made
himself ridiculous in the eyes of his audience.

There were only two courses open to him: either to
denounce the Messianic prophecies and the apocalyptical
visions about the Barnasha as forgeries and legends, or to
confirm them and at the same time to full, if he were that
lofty personage, the office of the “Son of Man.” To say:
“The Son of Man came to serve and not to be served,” [1]
or “The Son of Man shall be delivered unto the hands of
the Chief Priests and the Scribes” [2] or “The Son of Man
came eating and drinking [wine]” with the sinners and the
publicans, [3] and at the same time to confess that he was a
beggar living on the charity and hospitality of others, was
to insult his nation and its nation and its holiest religious
sentiments! To boast that he was the Son of Man and had
come to save and recover the lost sheep of Israel, [4] but
had to leave this salvation to the Last Judgement, and even
then to be cast into the eternal flames, was to frustrate
all the hopes of that persecuted people, who alone in all
mankind had the honour of being the only nation that
professed the faith and religion of the true God; and it
was to scorn their prophets and Apocalypses.

Could Jesus Christ (pbuh) assume that title? Are the
authors of the four Gospels Hebrews? Could Jesus (pbuh)

[1] Matt. xx. 28.

[2] Ibid. xx. 18.

[3] Ibid. xi. 18.

[4] Ibid. vxiii. 11.