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CHAPTER XXXVII, 107–112.
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benafsman) so long as they are in hell and numerous.
109. The wicked who are penitent become courageous anew as to the demon who perverts, the living occasion strength', and the retribution of the hellish existence of the wicked is completed, because the increase of sins?, owing to the sin which they committed, ceases. 110. They are let out from hell, though their sins are thus accumulated by the demons; they have also prepared the spirit of sin by the three days in molten metal“, which drives away tears, as its name is owing to the lessening of tears", which is alle in that which occurs when all the doers of actions for the demon of falsehood? pass through that preparation. 111. And he who, for three days, thus bathes (vushakedo) his sins which are owing to the fiend, and has destroyed the filth (kakhû) of the accumulated sins, is like those who have passed off and turned over a burden.
112. And the impotence of sin is owing to the destroyer of the fiend by the perception of light,
That is, the wicked who are still living, being penitent, reinforce the host of the righteous.
Referring probably to the growth of sin' mentioned in Chaps. XI, 2, XII, 5.
"That is,' purified.'
• All men are said to be purified, at the time of the resurrection, by passing through melted metal, which seems like warm milk to the righteous, but is a final torment to the wicked (see Chap. XXXII, 12, 13, Bd. XXX, 19, 20).
This would seem to allude to some Avesta name of this molten metal, which is no longer extant.
. We should probably read hamâi, 'ever,' instead of bamak, all.' Reading zür, but it may be zôr, 'violence.'
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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 |