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Narrative of Zosimus — source section IV
IV. And I saw there a naked man sitting, and said in myself, Surely this is not the tempter. And I remembered the voice of the cloud that it said to me, Not even the tempter in this world passes through me. And thus taking courage I said to him, Hail, brother. And he answering said to me, The grace of my God be with thee. Again I said to him, Tell me, man of God, who thou art? He answered and said to me, Who art thou rather? And I answered and told him all concerning myself, and that I had prayed to God and he had brought me into that place. He answered and said to me, I also know that thou art a man of God, for if not, thou couldst not have passed through the cloud and the river and the air. For the breadth of the river is about thirty thousand paces, and the cloud reaches to heaven, and the depth of the river to the abyss.
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History of the Rechabites — Craigie, Narrative of Zosimus
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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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