Saddharma Pundarika

SR No.: 007677
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

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CHAPTER XV, 73-97.
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are advantageous and suitable in many medicines which are removers of the disease of the sick, (86) it should be asked of them thus : Who produced the disease itself and the harm that arises from it, and what is the necessity of it, (87) that, afterwards, medicine and deadly poison were created by him for it, and were necessary ?' 88. Or, as to that disease, 'it would be more expedient if he had produced an antidotal (a nôsh) medicine for carrying it away than a medicine of poison.' 89. Also this, that is, 'from what origin is the term itself “ doing harm," and against whom is the advantageousness necessary?' go. On this subject it is possible to speak abundantly for a summary compiled.
91. Another instance is from the words of Paul (Pâvarôs), who was their high-priest-(92) that one who was afflictive with them at their own beginning 2—even this, they say, (93) is thus : 'Not the good works which I desire, but the iniquity (94) which I do not desire, I do 3. 95. And it is not I that do so, but that which is collected within me does it, (96) because I always see that it is striving with me day and night“.
97. Again, they say, from the words of the
1 Reading hanbêshin, but it may be well-afflicting to' if we read hû-bêshin.
''As for Saul, he made havoc of the church, entering into every house, and haling men and women, committed them to prison. . . . Saul who also is called Paul' (Acts viii. 3 ; xiii. 9).
3. For the good that I would, I do not : but the evil which I would not, that I do' (Rom. vii. 19).
It is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.... I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members' (Rom. vii. 20, 23).
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