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for the sake of co-operation with me, a lawful decree had been even more privately propagated by you, and if the religious demonstration about it were conservative and correct, it would then have been less vexatious for you to explain it to me than to others who have less acquaintance with the decrees and declaration of revelation; and if a difference had arisen thereon, a correct reply would then have come to you more fully from me. 8. And if you conceive that it is not necessary to demonstrate it to me through the declaration in revelation, that deliverance which it is not necessary to announce is not to be so decreed, even in another place. 9. And, just as even in Pârs, if it were not decreed by you in Sirkân on that account, when your conception was that they would not accept it from you, it was necessary for you to know that, because it was not possible for you to provide much interval for demonstration.
10. If its purport be now considered by you, when you are moving as to the writing from Shiraz? — which writes fully of your acquirement and interpretation of it, and of a mutilated deliverance 2—the arrangements for iniquity on this subject are many. 11. And one of them is the erroneous writing which is with me, for you conceive that they would accept from me your view, as it were swearing (sôkandiko) that it does not go to the filth accumulated for
* Referring probably to Ep. I, which appears to have been written from Shirâs after holding a general assembly (see Chap. I, 11, Ep. I, iii, 13); but this epistle, judging from the remark in the text, was probably written after Mânüskihar had left Shirâs, as was also Ep. III (see Chap. VIII, 1). : From pollution.
See Chap. II, 1. Assuming that the Paz. pgsåhu stands for pas sakh-t; but,
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