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History of the Rechabites — Craigie, Narrative of Zosimus

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Narrative of Zosimus — source section XVIII

XVIII. But seeing me thus praised, Satan desired to tempt me and throw his dart at me from his station, but an angel of God came and said to me, Zosimus, behold Satan is coming to tempt thee, but the Lord will fight for thee, for the glory of thy faith must bind [Source note: Text corrupt; “bind” is conjectural.] Satan. And an angel of God appeared, crying and saying, Welcome, blessed one of Christ. Come and I shall lead thee to the cave that is the dwelling-place of thy body, for thy cave shall be a testimony of the desert, a healing of the sick that come to it, a place of trial and touch-stone of demons. And laying hold of my hand he strengthened me, and led me for forty days to the cave where I had dwelt. And there was there a table of righteousness, and I spent the night with the angels of God. And I placed the tablets that were given me by the holy blessed ones on the step of the altar in my cave.

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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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Original language (catalog): Ancient source language(s)
Reading language: eng
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Source attribution and conditions: W.A.Craigie, translator; AllanMenzies, editor; historical additional Ante-Nicenevolume1896–1897. CCEL historical etext, sourcepp220–224.

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