can you then hope that they will believe in what you are preaching seeing that a good many of them were wont to listen to the word of god and then after having understood it to pervert it knowingly?
أفتطمعون أن يؤمنوا لكم وقد كان فريق منهم يسمعون كلام الله ثم يحرفونه من بعد ما عقلوه وهم يعلمون