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107. The means of the united forces are means such as the wise and the high-priests have proclaimed, that is, at the time of the renovation of the universe 2 being nigh, when completion has come to generation—those who were provided being born
—and after they occasion freedom from generation (azerkhûnisnih), they cause men and animals to exist, though passed away and dead. 108. All men, righteous and wicked, who continue in the world become immortal, the men are righteous whom Astôvidad does not obtain for death by evil noosing (das-vadisno): from behind, and who have completely attained to the rules of the sacred beings (yang-t yazdân); and the soul of the wicked, which is repentant of deceit, turns back upon the demons and fiends themselves all that previous violence of destruction and perversion, contention and blindingwhich is natural to a demon, and they fight, and strike, and tear, and cause to tear, and destroy among themselves (benafsman val
creatures of the sacred beings those which are an antagonism of himself;' apparently connecting this section with the next. This final argument is that, as the demons by their very nature must injure their friends if they fail with their enemies, they contain within themselves the source of their own final destruction. In other words: 'if Satan rise up against himself, and be divided, he cannot stand, but hath an end' (Mark iii. 26).
1 The army of angels of $8 58, 64. The author, having exhausted his arguments in favour of the final triumph of the good creation, now returns to his description of the issue of the contest, which he was about to commence in $ 64. 2 M14 and J omit the following words as far as provided.'
See Chap. XXIII, 3. • Or, perhaps, 'concealment,' as there is some doubt whether a û bênidârih means 'making unseeing, or making unseen.
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| SR No. | 007676 |
| Book Title | Text of Confucianism Part 02 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | James Legge |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1882 |
| Total Pages | 2405 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 43 MB |