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94third heaven and then unto Paradise, where he heard and saw words and objects that could not be described. The Churches and their commentators have believed this man to be St. Paul himself. Although the language is such as to convey to us the idea that he himself is the man, yet out of modesty it is that he keeps it a secret lest he should be considered a proud man (2 Cor. xii. 1-4). Although the teaches us that the Apostles of Jesus (pbuh) Christ (pbuh) were all holy and inspired men, yet their writings cannot be reliedupon, because thewrangling and disputantChurches have subjected them to interpolations. The Gospel of St. Barnabas states that Paul afterwards fell into an error and misled many of the believers.ThatPaul does notrevealthe identity ofthe person seen by him in the vision, and that the words which he heard in Paradise “cannot be spoken and no man is permitted to speak them,” shows that Paul was not himself the person who was taken up to Heaven. To say that Paul, for reason of humility and out of modesty, does not praise himself is simply to misrepresent Paul. He boasts of having rebuked St. Peter to hisface, and his epistles are full of expressions about himself which do rather confirm the idea that Paul was neither humble nor modest.Besides, we know from his writings to the Galatians and the Romans what a prejudiced Jew he was against Hagar and her son Ishmael (pbuh) . The glorious person he saw in his vision could be no other than the person seen by Daniel! It was Muhammad (pbuh) that he saw, and durst not report the words which were spoken to him by the Almighty because on the one hand he was afraid of the Jews, and because on the other he would have contradicted himself for having glorified himself so much with the Crossand the Crucified. I am half convinced that Paul was allowed to see the Barnasha whom Daniel had seen some six centuries before, but “the angel of Satan who was continually