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CHAPTER XXXVII, II-17.
and lies, and became aware of them by themselves and through their own intuition, and shall not accept the perdition (aôshih) of the fiend, but are to be rightly listening to the commands of him1 who is worthy. 14. For his is not the nature of him who is good, nor the wisdom of him who is propitious; and he does not turn from the confines of the shining ones, and the developments pertaining to those of the good being, until he arrives at the creatures; and he struggles in an attempt (aûzmână), spreads forth into the sky, is mobbed (garôhagf-aft) in combats, is completely surrounded, and is tested with perfect appliances. 15. His resources, also, are destroyed, his internal vigour is subdued, his weapons of falsehood are disregarded, and his means of deceiving shall perish; and with completeness of experience, thorough painfulness, routed troops, broken battle-array, and disarranged means he enjoys on the outside the radiance of the luminaries with the impotence (analyyâragîh) of a desire which again returns to him.
16. And the same well-shining light of all kinds of the creator, when they shall not let in him who is Aharman, shall remain an unlimited time, while the fiend is in household attendance on those of the frontier through not being let in, and constantly troubled at the everlasting creatures. 17. The household attendance of the fiend seemed to it' perpetually afflicting; and also the previous struggle
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1 Aûharmasd.
The fiend's.
Reading vêhikânako vakhshisno.
Assuming that andarmûnîh is a form analogous to pîrâmûnih, and with the meaning of andarûnih.
The light.
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