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CHAPTER XIV, 73-xv, 8.
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is the den (grêstak) of the gloomy race, (86) whom the devilish defiled ones and evil people glorify by the name of the Lord, and offer him homage.
87. About this subject is here complete.
CHAPTER XV. 1. Another thing I publish is a feeble story (nisang) about the inconsistency, unbounded statements, and incoherent disputations of Christian (Tarsâk) believers.
2. Since, inasmuch as all threel are from the one origin of Judaism (3) that implying that, when anything is said within the one, it is for them mutually helping their own delusion of every kind—(4) you should know whence the original sect of Christianity came forth. 5. That in the town of Jerusalem? there was a woman of the same Jews who was known for incapacity3, (6) and pregnancy became manifest in her 4. 7. When asked by them thus: “Whence is this pregnancy of thine?' (8) she said in reply thus : 'The angel Gabriel6 came unto me, and he spoke thus: “Thou art pregnant by the pure wind (holy spirit) 6.")
1 The three defects mentioned in $ 1. ? Nêr. reads Hurûsarm for Pahl. Aûrûsalem.
8 Sans. has misconduct,' but this is more than Pahl. dû sâzakih seems to imply.
* Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost' (Mat. i. 18).
• Pahl. Gêpril is misread Sparagar by Nêr. These two names would be written alike in Pahlavi.
6 The angel Gabriel was sent from God... to a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph ... and the angel
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| SR No. | 007677 |
| Book Title | Saddharma Pundarika |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | H Kern |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1884 |
| Total Pages | 2546 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 46 MB |