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EPISTLES OF MÂNUSKÍHAR.
has become of the same opinion as to this, that the statements of the high-priests are on an equality, and the most evidence of the high-priests is the right course—would have attained to confidence about this, that in a doubtful matter there should be a high-priest', and also that of which Afarg and Sôshans have alike understood a similar thing is proper.
CHAPTER X. 1. And as to the many other matters to which an explicit reply is not written by me - be it the determinableness of it, be it the flow of inward prayer?, be it the pouring of the water, and likewise the rest which is written to me—the statements, when deliberation and conjecture about such arrangements become needful, are not to be made unto the multitude, but unto the priestly at once ? 2. And this much, also, which is written by me is on this account", that when a writing has come to you which is the purport of my re-explanation, and it has seemed that it is written after well-weighed (sakhtako) observations', even so they would cause some of those of good desires to understand, who are thoughtful friends of the soul and observers of
1 To consult about the matters in doubt.
* Reading vâg-regisnõih; but J omits the first letter, and thereby converts the word into apardasisnih, want of leisure.'
• J has merely the statements are when deliberation and conjecture become at once needful.'
• Reading hanâ rãi, as in J; the other MSS. have hana 18.
• Or, perhaps, 'strict observations' here, and 'strict observers' further on.
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