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seemed to them severe, and thereby arises their forgiveness which is according to whatever anguish is owing to the torment which galls him.
CHAPTER LXXV. 1. As to the seventy-fourth question and reply, that which you ask is thus: Do the angels have his dead body restored, or not?
2. The reply is this, that there was a high-priest who said that the angels do not have his dead body restored, because of the sin of the mutually-polluting, full of stench, and inglorious victims (khvåpidoân)', the terrible kind of means for the exculpation of creatures, and that practice when males keep specially imperfect in their duty; it being then suitable for mankind to become free from him wholike Az-i Dahâk , who wanted many most powerful demons-resists and struggles, and is not possessing the perception to extract (patkasistanó) a pardon, owing to the course of many demoniacal causes. 3. But innumerable multitudes (amarakâniha), happily persevering in diligence, have with united observation, unanimously, and with mutual assistance (ham-bangisniha) insisted upon this, that they have the dead bodies of all men restored; for
1 Victims of the deceptions practised by the demons (see Chaps. LXXIII, 3, LXXIV, 3); but the reading is uncertain.
? Probably the punishment of the wicked in hell. * See Chap. XXXVII, 97.
• Reading farukhvo-tûshisn, but it may be perkhûnto dahisn, having begged the boon;' and M14 has pôryodkeshâno, of those of the primitive faith.'
aanit may be pork bares
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