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CHAPTER I, 24-II, 3.
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investigator's great advantage is the perfection, peace, equipment with righteousness, and fienddestroying power of his own people; and since you are made aware of the result of wishes and actions, and are directed by me, many new blessings also arise from you.
26. That which is written to you yourselves and unto all, in the beginning and even the end, is completely adapted to your own several wants; may it have an exalted end, with one courier (aê-barido) and continuously from beginning to end, and also perpetually!
27. A fair copy (bârzisniko pakino) of the questions, as well as the replies, is this; so that, when there is nothing in it which owing to that cause 1 is different, I am of opinion as is here written.
CHAPTER II. 1. First you ask thus: Why is a righteous man created better than the stars and moon and sun and fire of Adharmazd, and is called in revelation greater and better than the spiritual creation, and also than that which is worldly?
2. The reply is this, that the greatness and goodness of advance in wisdom and just judgment over the creatures arise from proficiency (hûnar). 3. Justice is the one good proficiency over the creatures, the means of wisdom are great, and praise bestowed is the most effectual performance
1 Owing to the copying. The sentence is equivalent to the modern phrase,'errors excepted.'
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