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CHAPTER VIII, 102-133.
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because mankind are not perfect even in one thing. 119. And, on account of imperfection in goodness, evil has crept on from them;. (120) and also on account of imperfection, even in health, they become sick. 121. For the same reason they die, (122) because the cause of death is the struggling of two competing propensities within one nature. 123. There where two competing propensities exist within one nature, the occurrence of sickness and death is known. .
124. If any one shall say that there are good and evil actions which, until they are done, do not exist, (125) then they may give this reply', (126) that the occurrence of an action apart from doing is as impossible as any propensity apart from a nature; and, as to the nature, (127) its a continuance and arrangement are then known thereby not to occur through its own self. 128. For when a man indulges in wrath, Vohůmanis far from there ; (129) and when Vohûman holds the position, wrath is not there. 130. When a man tells a lie, truth is far from there”; (131) and when he speaks true, falsehood has no position there, and that man is called truthful. 132. So also when sickness has come, health is not there; (133) and when health has come, sickness has gone.
See $ 95 n. ? Reading adînasas, then its thereby' (with a double pronominal suffix), which is the original Pahlavi indicated by Paz. ainâs (see Mkh. IX, 6 n).
* The archangel 'good thought,' who is said to hold the position and vanquish 'evil thought,' while the angel Srôsh does the same as regards 'wrath' (see Dînkard, quoted in Dd. XCIV, in; also Bd. XXX, 29).
Sans. adds and that man is called false,' which JE also inserts in Pâzand in the margin, but all other manuscripts omit.
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