[Footnote 76: The three gods in the Koran (c. 4, p. 81, c.
5, p. 92) are obviously directed against our Catholic
mystery: but the Arabic commentators understand them of the
Father, the Son, and the Virgin Mary, an heretical Trinity,
maintained, as it is said, by some Barbarians at the Council
of Nice, (Eutych. Annal. tom. i. p. 440.) But the existence
of the Marianites is denied by the candid Beausobre, (Hist.
de Manicheisme, tom. i. p. 532;) and he derives the mistake
from the word Roxah, the Holy Ghost, which in some Oriental
tongues is of the feminine gender, and is figuratively
styled the mother of Christ in the Gospel of the Nazarenes.]