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when he is distressed by that good work', while the increase does not desist from increase, it grows just as a child becomes enlarged in the womb of a mother.
CHAPTER XI.
1. The tenth question is that which you ask thus: Does the growth which increases become as commendable in the fourth night as the original good work in his possession, or does it become otherwise?
2. The reply is this, that it is otherwise; for the original good work stands up opposing sin, and the growing good work stands up opposed to the growth of sin.
CHAPTER XII.
1. The eleventh question is that you ask thus: Does the growth of a good work eradicate sin just like the original good work, or not?
2. The reply is this, that the growth does eradicate it, as happens with the good work which is for atonement for sin; it shall be done as retribution for sin, and it eradicates the sin, which is specially mentioned in revelation". 3. Then the place of his
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The good work being more meritorious when more trouble
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After death, when all the immediate ceremonies for the dead have been completed (see Sls. XVII, 5 note).
Literally 'the good work of the beginning.' That bûn kirfako does not here stand for bûn-î kirfako, 'the origin or root of the good work,' appears from Chap. XII, 1, where it is written kirfakŏ-î bûn.
Literally 'the good work of growth.'
See Pahl. Vend. VII, 136, where the matter is mentioned, but
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