Chapter XI

Pahlavi Texts, Part II (SBE18), E.W. West, tr. [1882], at sacred-texts.com

CHAPTER XI.

1. The tenth question is that which you ask thus: Does the growth which increases become as commendable in the fourth night ² as the original good work ³ in his possession, or does it become otherwise?

2. The reply is this, that it is otherwise; for the original good work stands up opposing sin, and the growing good work ⁴ stands up opposed to the growth of sin.

Footnotes

30:2 After death, when all the immediate ceremonies for the dead have been completed (see Sls. XVII, 5 note).

30:3 Literally 'the good work of the beginning.' That bûn kirfakŏ does not here stand for bûn-î kirfakŏ, 'the origin or root of the good work,' appears from Chap. XII, 1, where it is written kirfakŏ-î bûn.

30:4 Literally 'the good work of growth.'