Note 102
Mahomet (Sale's Koran, c. 9, p. 153)
reproaches the Christians with taking their priests and
monks for their lords, besides God. Yet Maracci (Prodromus,
part iii. p. 69, 70) excuses the worship, especially of the
pope, and quotes, from the Koran itself, the case of Eblis,
or Satan, who was cast from heaven for refusing to adore
Adam.]
The History Of The Decline And
Fall Of The Roman Empire
—Fall In The East
—Chapter 50