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though they would provide us: here below with a large share of meat, that they would make our privilege, just as we here supply him with meat whom we render greatly precious. 27. The property of even a wicked man here below, O Zaratūst! in the average opinion among the disorganized (anârâstânó) is a dignified provision (that is, we form a strong opinion, the approval of which is more to be asserted as being the opinion of a poor righteous man, about a worthy righteous man whose manifest righteousness is a homage (franâmisno) to duty and good works).'
28. Again he enquired of him thus : 'Is there so perfect a manifestation here below, in the age of the worldly existence of the religion of the Mazda-worshippers (that is, is there a lodgement of the religion of the Mazda-worshippers in any one) ? 29. And Adharmazd spoke thus: 'It is so, among those men of mine?, O Zaratûst! for here below there are priests who are eloquent, and they, too, are men voluble and requisite in the embodied existence, all-beneficent and producing the destruction of harm and the wizard ; the people of the wicked tyrant say also regarding them, that, excepting thee, O Zaratûst ! they rightly practise righteousness more largely, more powerfully, and more volubly. 30. Blind are those of the fiend, who are consulting with thee and are unaware of the tyrant; and observant are also those of the fiend who consult with them and think of their intelligence, and oppose the imbecile (anâkâsîh-allmônd) apostate who is near them, so that
· The archangels.
* Reading minam, instead of madam which is unintelligible here.
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