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Chapter VI.—The
True Prophet.
“Now the Prophet of the truth is He who
always knows all things—things past as they were, things present
as they are, things future as they shall be; sinless, merciful, alone
entrusted with the declaration of the truth. Read, and you shall
find that those were deceived920
| 920 “Were
deceived” is not in the text, but the sense demands some such
expression should be supplied. | who thought
that they had found the truth of themselves. For this is peculiar
to the Prophet, to declare the truth, even as it is peculiar to the sun
to bring the day. Wherefore, as many as have even desired to know
the truth, but have not had the good fortune to learn it from Him, have
not found it, but have
died seeking it. For how can he find the truth who seeks it from
his own ignorance? And even if he find it, he does not know it,
and passes it by as if it were not. Nor yet shall he be able to
obtain possession of the truth from another, who, in like manner,
promises to him knowledge from ignorance; excepting only the knowledge
of morality and things of that sort, which can be known through reason,
which affords to every one the knowledge that he ought not to wrong
another, through his not wishing himself to be
wronged.
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