Note 413 — THE DEVOUT ISRAELITE.

Arab. “Banú Israíl;” applied to the Jews when theirs was the True Faith i.e. “before the coming of Jesus, the Messiah, whose mission completed that of Moses and made it obsolete (Matrúk) even as the mission of Jesus was completed and abrogated by that of Mohammed.” The term “Yahúd” = Jew is applied scornfully to the Chosen People after they rejected the Messiah, but as I have said “Israelite” is used on certain occasions, Jew on others.