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which are its wisdom, would at once produce enmity, and the friends of religion, are for each of two sides, it is important to look to the procuring of forgiveness, kind regards, and the progress of the elect (pasandakâ no) in the duty of the faithful.
CHAPTER LXXXIX. 1. As to the eighty-eighth question and reply, that which you ask is thus: When a man resolves within himself thus : ‘In the summer time I will go into Pârs, and will give so much money for the high-priesthood, on account of the fires and other matters which are as greatly advantageous,' though he himself does not come into Pars, but sends the money according to his intention, or in excess of it, unto the high-priests-so that he is like the great who send in excess of that unto the highpriests 2—that, as the benefit is greater which is more maintained, they may provide for the fires of every kind and other matters, is then his proceeding of sending to Pârs, for that purpose, a sin, or not?
2. The reply is this, that if his coming be indispensable for the design he would undertake, then it is indispensable for him to accomplish his own mental undertaking; but in suffering which is excited and not avoidable, when there is really no possibility
1 Assuming that hâmân stands for hâmino. · M14 omits this phrase.
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