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thinking. Even so innocent a verse as 3 41 is made to serve his purpose. ’ He (Jesus) will speak to the people in the cradle and as grown man.’ The Maulvi reads When of old age,’ which proves for him that Jesus did not die at the age of thirtythree, but lived to a sufficiently old age. The orthodox Muhammadan view has been that Jesus was not crucified, but another was substituted for Him at the time of the execution, and He was taken up alive to heaven. This is borne out by ~157 which says they did not kill him and did not crucify him, but he was counterfeited for them.’ The Maulvi however explains : The word does not negative Jesus being nailed to the cross, but it negatives his having expired on the cross as a result of being nailed to it. That he died a