Zend Avesta Part 01

SR No.: 007671
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: James Darmesteter
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1895
Total Pages: 2695
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 49 MB

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IV, 150-156.
THE CHAPTER OF WOMEN.
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disbelieve in part, and desire to take a midway course between the two :' [150] these are the misbelievers, and we have prepared for misbelievers shameful woe! But those who believe in God and His apostles, and who do not make a distinction between any one of them,--to these we will give their hire, for God is forgiving and merciful!
The people of the Book will ask thee to bring down for them a book from heaven; but they asked Moses a greater thing than that, for they said, 'Show us God openly;' but the thunderbolt caught them in their injustice. Then they took the calf, after what had come to them of manifest signs; but we pardoned that, and gave Moses obvious authority. And we held over them the mountain' at their compact, and said to them, 'Enter ye the door adoring;' and we said to them, ‘Transgress not on the Sabbath day,' and we took from them a rigid compact.
But for that they broke their compact, and for their misbelief in God's signs, and for their killing the prophets undeservedly, and for their saying, 'Our hearts are uncircumcised,'—nay, God hath stamped on them their misbelief, so that they cannot believe except a few,—155) and for their misbelief, and for their saying about Mary a mighty calumny, and for their saying, “Verily, we have killed the Messiah, Jesus the son of Mary, the apostle of God,' .... but they did not kill him, and they did not crucify him, but a similitude was made for them. And verily, those who differ about him are in doubt concerning him; they have no knowledge concerning him, but only follow an opinion. They did not kill
* See note, p. 8.
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