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32. Again, it shows that his final result is all regret, (33) just as this which it states, that he became among the despondent (zardakân), and he spoke thus: 'I am repentant as to the making of men on the earth?.'
34. This, too, it states, that he sits upon a throne which four angels hold upon their wings, from each one of whom a fiery river always proceeds, owing to the load of his weight?. 35. Now, when he is a spirit, not formed with a body, why then are those four distressed by him, who have to sustain with toil the grievous load of that easy thing?
36. Again, it states this, that every day he prepares, with his own hand, ninety thousand worshippers, and they always worship him until the night time, and then he dismisses them, through a fiery river, to hell 3. 37. When trouble and injustice of this description are seen, how is it
children' (Ex. xii. 37). "Doubtless ye shall not come into the land concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.... But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness' (Num. xiv. 30, 32).
1 And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth' (Gen. vi. 6).
2. Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures. ... Their wings were joined one to another. ... As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of lamps: it went up and down among the living creatures. ... And under the firmament were their wings straight, the one toward the other. . . . And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it' (Eze. i. 5, 9, 13, 23, 26). A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him' (Dan. vii. 10).
* This statement may possibly be quoted from the Talmud.
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