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History of the Rechabites
History of the Rechabites — Craigie, Narrative of Zosimus
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Narrative of Zosimus — source section I
I. About that time there was in the desert a certain man named Zosimus, who for forty years ate no bread, and drank no wine, and saw not the face of man. This man was entreating God that he might see the way of life of the blessed, and behold an angel of the Lord was sent saying to him, Zosimus, man of God, behold I am sent by the Most High, the God of all, to tell thee that thou shalt journey to the blessed, but shalt not dwell with them. But exalt not thy heart, saying, For forty years I have not eaten bread, for the word of God is more than bread, and the spirit of God is more than wine. And as for thy saying, I have not seen the face of man, behold the face of the great king is nigh thee. Zosimus said, I know that the Lord can do whatsoever he will. The angel said to him, Know this also, that thou art not worthy of one of their delights, but arise and set out.
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Recorded completeness: Complete supplied historical English Greek-recension Narrative of Zosimus, with the Rechabite history and surrounding narrative, all source sectionsI–XXII through finalAmen. Includes the unnumbered continuation afterXXI and the original textual note on the corrupt nameCryseos. This is the supplied Greek-recension historical witness, not every Syriac/Ethiopic/Slavonic recension or a claim of original Greek Unicode text. Printed page-number links and modern footnote link identifiers are removed only as hosting markup; original narrative and source note are preserved.. Available reading sections are listed below.
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