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become fetid and is stirred again, when they keep it in use, is proper. 7. And that which the Sakâdum has declared is, specially, that one of the high-priests has individually said: 'That stench is mentioned with reference to the occasion when a stench reaches it of a different kind from that which exists naturally in it.'
CHAPTER IX.
1. And as to that which is written', that 'the teachings of Mêdyôk-mâh, Afarg, and Sôshâns' have all three come and remained, and, on that account, whoever has washed just as they always wash therein is certain that he is worthy.' 2. Also, 'should it have been as it were proper to them, would Mêdyôk-mâh have said that "not even the purifier is single?""' 3. And the rest as written on that subject, which, on account of its acute observation, has seemed to be from their statements; they, however, have not decided it so by the teaching which is in their names, as was indicated by me before 3.
4. But I do not so understand that 'if those should have been all the particulars of the peculiarity of all three teachings, would the teachings of Mêdyôk-mâh and Sôshâns have said, concerning any one who should have so washed that the purifier was single, that suitable, because the highpriests have been thus very unanimous that when
1 In the epistle to which he is replying. * See Chap. V, I.
See Chap. VI, 2−4.
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