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whole realm, and the whole of the demons and mankind have been afraid of him, through the truth of the words spoken-was bold with them in every speech, and became victorious (muthaffar) over them, by reason of the true words that he was speaking.
6. The accursed Aharman, when he perceived the spirit of truth, had fallen senseless three thousand years 1. 7. From fear of truth he never managed to hold up his head, and from fear of truth he did not manage to come into this world . 8. And everything that thou settest thy gaze (nathar) upon therein, that has remained on the spot when thou seekest again an examination of it, has remained through truth. 9. And the interpretation of the Ashem-vohûs is in truth, and, for that reason, they recite the Ashem-vohù frequently.
CHAPTER LXIII. 1. The sixty-third subject is this, that it is necessary to practise strict abstinence from adultery on this account, that through every one who beguiles the wife of another, and commits iniquity with her, that woman becomes, in a moment, unlawful as regards her husband. 2. And, after that, every time her husband comes round about her, it is just as though she had gone near to a strange man. 3. The righteous bestowalt of herself on her own husband, in this
1 See Bd. I, 22. The spirit of truth was his opposite, the spentô mainyus or 'bountiful spirit' of Hôrmazd. ? See Bd. III, 1-5.
* See Chap. VII, 1 n. • Lp inserts "he shall wish.'
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