the dead).
He said: What testimony could be clearer or more decisive than this? The most reliable of your own disciples is telling you—as you can see—that the Messiah is a man, that he is from Allah, that the signs that appeared through him were worked by Allah’s command through his hands, and that the One who raised him from the dead is Allah, Almighty and Exalted.
He said: In that same passage he also states, “Know that Allah has made this Jesus whom you killed both Lord and Messiah.”
He said: This wording removes any pretext for someone who might claim, in the first section, that he was referring merely to the human nature, for he plainly says that Allah made him Lord and Messiah—and whatever is “made” is a created, effected being.
Abu Nasr said: He was called a Nazarene only because his mother was from a village named “Nazareth.”