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CHAPTER LXXVIII, 2-LXXX, 5.
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5. For it is declared in revelation, that the creator Hôrmazd spoke to Zaratust, the Spitamân, thus :
I have created the supreme heaven of heavens for the sake of any of the liberal who provide for the worthy and give them something; and gloomy hell is for all those persons who give anything to the unworthy.'
6. In like manner it is declared in revelation, that there are thirty-three ways to heaven, besides that of the souls of the liberal. 7. If the soul be of any one else, it is not able to arrive in heaven? by that way. 8. Besides this happyway, a soul of the liberal is able to arrive in heaven by means of the thirty-three ways. 9. For no one is it easier to arrive in heaven than for the liberal.
CHAPTER LXXX. 1. The eightieth subject is this, that there is a time when thou recitest one Ashem-vohas, and the merit of it may be as much as that of ten. 2. There is a time when thou recitest one Ashem-voha, and the merit of it may be as much as that of a hundred. 3. A time may be when thou recitest one", and the merit of it may be as much as that of a thousand. 4. A time may be when the merit of one Ashemvohůý may be as much as that of ten thousand. 5.
1 B29 omits in heaven.' B29 has 'besides by the one.'
8 See Chap. VII, I n. The contents of this chapter are derived from Hn. I, 11-35 (Yt. XXI, 6-15).
- B29 adds · Ashem-vohů.'
• La omits the merit of;' and B29 has 'when thou recitest one Ashem-vohû, and the merit of it,' both here and in $ 5.
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