ANF08. The Twelve Patriarchs, Excerpts and Epistles, The Clementia, Apocrypha, Decretals, Memoirs of Edessa and Syriac Documents, Remains of the First Age

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Chapter IV.—Zoroaster.

“Of this family there was born in due time a certain one, who took up with magical practices, by name Nebrod, who chose, giant-like, to devise things in opposition to God. Him the Greeks have called Zoroaster. He, after the deluge, being ambitious of sovereignty, and being a great magician, by magical arts compelled the world-guiding star of the wicked one who now rules, to the bestowal of the sovereignty as a gift from him. But he,¹¹¹⁰

¹¹¹⁰ That is, I suppose, the wicked one.
being a prince, and having authority over him who compelled him,¹¹¹¹

¹¹¹¹ I suppose Nimrod, or Zoroaster.
wrathfully poured out the fire of the kingdom, that he might both bring to allegiance, and might punish him who at first constrained him.

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