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priests and teachers, so as to read, and that no error may continue in the Nyâyises and Yasts.
2. And it is still more expedient for priests and teachers, that they teach the Avesta characters to all those of the good religion?; and if a priest, while teaching, shows incompetence (taqzír), it is a great sin for him. 3. For Hôrmazd, the good and propitious, spoke to Zaratust thus: 'As to every priest and teacher who commits a blunder in teaching ? those of the good religion, I make him just as far from heaven as the width of the earth 3.'
CHAPTER XCIX. 1. The ninety-ninth subject is this, that it is not proper for officiating priests, high-priests, spiritual chiefs, and priests, that they teach Pahlavi to every one.
2. For Zaratust enquired of Hôrmazd thus : 'To whom is it proper to teach Pahlavi ?' 3. And Hôrmazd, the good and propitious, gave a reply thus : 'To every one who is of thy family (nasl), an officiating priest, a high-priest, a spiritual chief, and every one who is an intelligent priest. 4. * Besides these that I have mentioned, if one teaches it to others 5 it is a great sin for him; and if he has performed many duties and good works, the end for him may still be hell.'
1 B29 omits these seven words. · Lp, B29 insert the Avesta to.' 3 Compare Chap. XXVIII, 3. * B29 inserts it is not proper for any other person.'
6 Lp has 'if there be any one of the others, it is not proper that one teaches him.'
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