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Narrative of Zosimus — source section XX
XX. Saying these things the Devil departed from me, and after eight days he brought with him one thousand three hundred and sixty demons, and dragged me from the cave as I prayed, and they beat me, tossing me about between them, for forty days. And after the forty days the devil lamented before me and said, Woe is me that through one man I have lost the world, for he has vanquished me by his prayer. And he began to run from me, but I laying hold of him stayed him and said, Thou shalt not run away and flee from me until thou swearest to me never again to tempt man. And lamenting with great and violent lamentation he swore to me by the firmament of heaven, So long as thy dwelling is here, and after thee, I will not come upon this place. Then I let him go, sending him and the demons with him into eternal fire. Then the angel came, who had companied with me at the table, and led me into my cave with great glory.
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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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