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وَلِهَذَا قَبَضَ السَّامِرِيُّ قَبْضَةً مِنْ أَثَرِ الرَّسُولِ الَّذِي هُوَ جِبْرَئِيلُ وَهُوَ الرُّوحُ وَكَانَ السَّامِرِيُّ عَالِمًا بِهَذَا الأَمْرِ فَلَمَّا عَرَفَ أَنَّهُ جِبْرَئِيلُ عَرَفَ أَنَّ الحَيَاةَ قَدْ سَرَتْ فِيمَا وَطِئَ عَلَيْهِ فَقَبَضَ قَبْضَةً مِنْ أَثَرِ الرَّسُولِ بِالصَّادِ أَوْ بِالضَّادِ أَيْ عَلَىٰ يَدِهِ أَوْ بِأَطْرَافِ أَصَابِعِهِ فَنَبَذَهَا فِي العِجْلِ فَخَارَ العِجْلُ إِذْ صَوْتُ البَقَرِ إِنَّمَا هُوَ خُوَارٌ وَلَوْ أَقَامَهُ صُورَةً أُخْرَىٰ لَنُسِبَ إِلَيْهِ اسْمُ الصَّوْتِ الَّذِي لِتِلْكَ الصُّورَةِ كَالرُّغَاءِ لِلإِبِلِ وَالثُّوْاجِ لِلْكِبَاشِ وَاليُعَارِ لِلشِّيَاهِ وَالصَّوْتِ لِلإِنْسَانِ أَوِ النُّطْقِ أَوِ الكَلَامِ

And for this reason al-Sāmirī took a handful from the track of the messenger, who is Gabriel, and he is the spirit [cf. Q 20:96]. Al-Sāmirī had knowledge of this matter. So when he recognized that it was Gabriel, he knew that life had pervaded whatever he had trodden upon. So he took a handful from the track of the messenger, [read] with ṣād or with ḍād, that is, with his [whole] hand or with the tips of his fingers, and he cast it into the calf, and the calf lowed. For the sound of cattle is nothing but lowing (khuwār). Had he set it up in another form, the name of the sound belonging to that form would have been ascribed to it: such as rughāʾ [grumbling] for camels, thuwāj [bleating] for rams, yuʿār [bleating] for sheep, and voice (ṣawt) for the human being, or rational utterance (nuṭq), or speech (kalām).

Ibn Turka

﴿ولهذا قبض السامريّ قبضة من أثر الرسول الذي هو جبرئيل ، وهو الروح﴾

العقل الأول في اعتباراته المختلفة فإنّك قد عرفت في المقدّمة أن للعقل الأول أسماء بحسب طريان الاعتبارات المتخالفة له ، وظهور سلطانها عليه ، فإنّه باعتبار التدوين والتسطير يسمّى بالقلم ، وباعتبار التصرّف والتصريف يسمّى بالروح ، وباعتبار ضبطه وإحصائه الأسماء والرقائق الوجودية يسمى بالعقل ، هذه أسمائه في مرتبته . ثمّ إذا تنزّل في عوالم الحجب فباعتبار وساطته ورسالته في إنزال أصول الصور الكلاميّة على الإنسان الكامل يسمى بجبرئيل ، كما أن العقل الأخير المسمى بالعقل الفعّال باعتبار وساطته في إحداث الصور الحرفيّة وإسماعها يسمى بإسماعيل . وما قيل: « إنّ جبرئيل عند العرفاء هو ما يختصّ أمر سلطنته بالفلك السابع وما دونه » فهو غير ما علم من تصفّح كلام الشيخ ، فإنّه قد صرّح في كتاب عقلة المستوفز: أنّ فلك البروج - الذي هو الفلك الأطلس عنده - فيه خلق عالم المثل الإنسانية والحجب الجسدانيّة ، وفي هذا الفلك مقام جبرئيل ، وإليه ينتهي علم علماء الرصد لا يجاوزه أصلا - هذا كلامه . ثمّ هاهنا تلويح وهو أنّك قد عرفت ما في ( ال ) من الإحاطة بتمام الكلام ، « فجبرال » - بحسب الاشتقاق الكبير - الذي هو المعوّل عليه عند كبار المحققين - يدل على أنّه « الجائي برأي ال » كما أن « إسماعيل » يدل على أنّه المصدر « لإسماع ال » . وبيّن أن ( ال ) هو الكلام الجامع بين المقطَّع والمركَّب ، والصورة الحائزة للجمع والتفرقة والفرقان القرآن . ومن تفطَّن لهذا الأصل عرف كثيرا من الدقائق ، منها وجه التمييز بين القرآن المنزل السماويّ والحديث القدسيّ النبويّ . السامريّ وخوار عجله

— the First Intellect (al-ʿaql al-awwal) in its various considerations (iʿtibārāt). For you have already come to know in the introduction that the First Intellect has names according to the occurrence of differing considerations upon it and the manifestation of their authority (sulṭān) over it. For by consideration of recording and inscribing it is named the Pen (al-qalam); by consideration of disposing and directing it is named the Spirit (al-rūḥ); by consideration of its encompassing and enumerating the Names and the existential subtleties (raqāʾiq wujūdiyya) it is named the Intellect (al-ʿaql) — these are its names in its own level. Then, when it descends into the worlds of veils, by consideration of its intermediation (wasāṭa) and mission (risāla) in sending down the roots of the verbal forms (al-ṣuwar al-kalāmiyya) upon the Perfect Human (al-insān al-kāmil), it is named Gabriel — just as the last intellect, named the Active Intellect (al-ʿaql al-faʿʿāl), by consideration of its intermediation in bringing about the letter-forms (al-ṣuwar al-ḥarfiyya) and causing them to be heard, is named Ismāʿīl. And what has been said — that Gabriel, according to the Gnostics (al-ʿurafāʾ), is that whose authority's rule is specific to the seventh sphere and what is beneath it — is other than what is known from perusing the words of the Shaykh. For he has stated explicitly in the book ʿUqlat al-Mustawfiz that the sphere of the zodiacal signs (falak al-burūj) — which, according to him, is the Atlas Sphere (al-falak al-aṭlas) — is where the world of human archetypal forms (ʿālam al-mithl al-insāniyya) and corporeal veils is created, and in this sphere is the station of Gabriel, to which the knowledge of the astronomers (ʿulamāʾ al-raṣd) is limited, never passing beyond it at all — this is his statement. Then here is an indication (talwīḥ): namely, that you have already come to know what is contained in the article [al-] of encompassing the totality of speech (al-kalām). So "Jibrāʾīl" — according to the greater derivation (al-ishtiqāq al-kabīr), which is what is relied upon among the great verifiers (al-muḥaqqiqūn) — indicates that he is "the one who comes with [knowledge of] al-", just as "Ismāʿīl" indicates that he is the source for "causing al- to be heard." And it is clarified that [al-] is the comprehensive speech (al-kalām al-jāmiʿ) between the discrete (al-muqaṭṭaʿ) and the composite (al-murakkab), and the form possessing both comprehensiveness (jamʿ) and differentiation (tafriqa) — the Discrimination (al-furqān), the Qurʾān. And whoever grasps this principle comes to know many subtleties, among them the distinction between the revealed heavenly Qurʾān and the sacred prophetic ḥadīth (al-ḥadīth al-qudsī al-nabawī). Al-Sāmirī and the lowing of his calf

﴿ولهذا قبض السامريّ قبضة من أثر الرسول الذي هو جبرئيل ، وهو الروح﴾

قال الجندي في شرح الفصوص : وجبرئيل هو الروح الكليّ المسلط على عالم العناصر كلها ، وسلطانه ومقامه سدرة المنتهى ، وليس كما يزعم الفلاسفة أنه العقل الفعال - يعنون روح فلك القمر - فإن روحانية فلك القمر هو إسماعيل ، وليس بإسماعيل النبيّ ، بل هو ملك مسلّط على عالم الكون والفساد ، وهو من أتباع جبرئيل عليه السّلام ، وليس لإسماعيل حكم فيما فوق فلك القمر ، ولا لجبرئيل فيما فوق السدرة ، وحكمه على السماوات السبع وما تحتها من الأسطقسات والمواليد

— Al-Jundī said in his commentary on the Fuṣūṣ: "Gabriel is the universal spirit (al-rūḥ al-kullī), given dominion over the entire world of elements, and his authority and station is the Lote-Tree of the Utmost Boundary (sidrat al-muntahā). And it is not as the philosophers claim, that he is the Active Intellect — meaning thereby the spirit of the sphere of the moon. For the spirituality of the sphere of the moon is Ismāʿīl, and he is not the Prophet Ismāʿīl, but rather an angel given dominion over the world of generation and corruption (al-kawn wa-l-fasād), one of the followers of Gabriel, peace be upon him. Ismāʿīl has no rule over what is above the sphere of the moon, nor does Gabriel [have rule] over what is above the Lote-Tree; his rule extends over the seven heavens and what is beneath them of the elements (al-usṭuqusāt) and the generated beings (al-mawālīd)."

Note by the modern editor (al-muḥaqqiq) of the ibnalarabi.com text, not by Ibn Turka

﴿ولهذا قبض السامريّ قبضة من أثر الرسول الذي هو جبرئيل ، وهو الروح﴾

هذا المعنى ظاهر كلمات الجندي والكاشاني والقيصري

— This meaning is apparent in the words of al-Jundī, al-Kāshānī, and al-Qayṣarī

Note by the modern editor (al-muḥaqqiq) of the ibnalarabi.com text, not by Ibn Turka

Jāmī

﴿قبض السامري قبضة﴾

أي قبضة من تراب

that is, a handful of dust

Bālī Zāde

﴿قبض السامري قبضة من أثر الرسول﴾

أي أخذ السامري ترابا من مكان الذي وطئ عليه الرسول عليه السلام . قال الشيخ رضي الله عنه

i.e. the Samaritan took dust from the place that the Messenger, peace be upon him, had trodden upon. The Shaykh, may God be pleased with him, said

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مِنْ أَثَرِ

Only Jāmī comments here.

Jāmī

﴿من أثر﴾

براق ( الرسول الذي هو جبريل عليه السلام ) متمثلا بصورة بشرية ( وهو ) ، أي جبريل هو ( الروح ) حقيقة باعتبار حقيقته المجردة ومجازا باعتبار صورته المثالية

of the hoof-print (of the Messenger, who is Gabriel, peace be upon him) represented in a human form (and he is) that is, Gabriel is (the Spirit) - in reality, considering his immaterial reality, and metaphorically, considering his imaginal form

Bālī Zāde

﴿الذي هو جبرائيل وهو الروح وكان السامري عالما بهذا الأمر فلما عرف أنه جبرائيل عرف أن الحياة قد سرت فيما وطئ عليه فقبض قبضة من أثر الرسول عليه السلام بالضاد﴾

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المعجمة ( أو بالصاد ) المهملة ( أي بملء يده ) تفسير بالضاد المعجمة

the dotted letter ("or with ṣād") the undotted letter ("i.e. a fistful") is an explanation for the reading with the dotted ḍād

Ibn Turka

﴿وكان السامريّ﴾

لملازمته سدّة النبوّة مقتبسا من مشكاة حكمها الأنوار العلميّة

— due to his constant attendance (mulāzama) at the threshold (sudda) of prophethood — one who drew from the niche (mishkāt) of its wisdom the lights of knowledge (al-anwār al-ʿilmiyya)

Jāmī

﴿وكان السامري عالما بهذا الأمر فلما عرف﴾

بنور بصيرته المكتسبة في صحبة موسى عليه السلام ( أنه ) ، أي الرسول

by the light of the insight he had acquired in the company of Moses, peace be upon him, (that it was) that is, the Messenger

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عَالِمًا بِهَذَا الأَمْرِ

Only Ibn Turka comments here.

Ibn Turka

﴿عالما بهذا الأمر﴾

- وهو أن الحياة تترتّب على مواطأة الروح حيثما وطئ قال الشيخ رضي الله عنه

— namely, that life results from the spirit's treading wherever it treads. The Shaykh, may God be pleased with him, said

Ibn Turka

﴿فلما عرف أنّه جبرئيل ، عرف أنّ الحياة قد سرت فيما وطئ عليه ، فقبض قبضة من أثر الرسول - بالضاد أو بالصاد ، أي بملء يده ، أو بأطراف أصابعه فنبذها بالعجل ،فخار العجل﴾

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لأنّه أثّر الحياة في صورة العجل وغاية ما يترتّب على إقامة بنيته . فإنّ الصورة الفصليّة للنوع هي الغاية الكماليّة التي بها يصير ذلك النوع بالفعل . ومبدأ تخالف تلك الصورة هي المادّة الاميّة المسماة بالجنس ، فإنّها تختلف بحسب اختلاف تلك المادّة

— meaning a full handful, or with the tips of his fingers — and cast it upon the calf, and the calf lowed] — because he had impressed life into the form of the calf, and the utmost consequence attendant upon the establishment of its [bodily] structure. For the differentiating form (al-ṣūra al-faṣliyya) of the species is the perfective end (al-ghāya al-kamāliyya) by which that species comes to be in actuality. And the principle of the differentiation of that form is the maternal matter (al-māddah al-ummiyya) called the genus (al-jins), for it differs according to the difference of that matter

Jāmī

﴿جبريل عرف أن الحياة قد سرت فيما وطئ عليه﴾

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من التراب وأنها تسري من ذلك التراب الموطوء عليه إلى ما يلابسه

of the dust, and that it permeates from that trodden-upon dust to whatever is conjoined with it

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فَقَبَضَ قَبْضَةً مِنْ أَثَرِ

Only Jāmī comments here.

Jāmī

﴿فقبض قبضة من أثر﴾

براق ( الرسول بالضاد ) المعجمة

of the hoofprint (of the Messenger, with ḍād) [i.e., the dotted letter]

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أَوْ بِالضَّادِ أَيْ

Only Jāmī comments here.

Jāmī

﴿وبالصاد المهملة أي على يده … أو بأطراف أصابعه﴾

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على الثاني ( فنبذها ) ، أي طرح السامري هذه القبضة من التراب ( في ) صورة ( العجل ) المتخذة من حلي القوم

[the undotted letter], meaning upon his hand... (or with his fingertips) according to the second reading, (and he cast it), that is, the Samaritan threw this handful of dust (into) the form (of the calf) fashioned from the people's ornaments

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أَوْ بِأَطْرَافِ أَصَابِعِهِ

Only Bālī Zāde comments here.

Bālī Zāde

﴿أو بأطراف أصابعه﴾

تفسير بالصاد المهملة . ( فنبذها ) أي القبضة والمراد به المقبوضة

is an explanation for the reading with the undotted ṣād. ("so he cast it") i.e. the handful, meaning what had been seized

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فِي العِجْلِ فَخَارَ العِجْلُ

Only Bālī Zāde comments here.

Bālī Zāde

﴿في العجل فخار العجل﴾

لسريان الحياة فيه وإنما لم يصوت غير الخوار

because of the running of life through it; and it did not produce any sound other than bellowing

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فَخَارَ العِجْلُ

Only Jāmī comments here.

Jāmī

﴿فخار العجل﴾

لسراية الحياة فيه ، وإنما سمي الصوت الظاهر من العجل خوار ( إذ ) العجل من نوع البقر و

because of the permeation of life within it; the sound manifesting from the calf is called bellowing (since) the calf belongs to the bovine species, and

Ibn Turka

﴿إذ صوت البقر إنما هو خوار ، ولو﴾

أنّ السامريّ

al-Sāmirī

Jāmī

﴿صوت البقر إنما هو خوار ولو أقامه﴾

أي السامري العجل باعتبار مادته

that is, had the Samaritan set up the calf, considering its [material] substance,

Bālī Zāde

﴿إذ صوت البقر إنما هو خوار … ولو إقامة﴾

أي لو نبذ السامري ما قبضه من أثر الرسول عليه السلام

i.e. had the Samaritan cast what he had seized from the trace of the Messenger, peace be upon him

Ibn Turka

﴿أقامه صورة أخرى لنسب إليه اسم الصوت الذي لتلك الصورة﴾

ضرورة ترتّب ذلك على تركيب هيئته وصورة حياته ، التي هي المادّة الجنسيّة

— of necessity resulting from the composition of its configuration (hayʾa) and the form of its life, which is the generic matter (al-māddah al-jinsiyya)

Jāmī

﴿صورة أخرى﴾

إبلية أو كبشية أو شاتية أو إنسانية أو غير ذلك ( لتسبّب ) على البناء للمفعول أو الفاعل أي تسبب اللّه سبحانه أو السامري بأن يكون الفعل مسندا إلى السبب ( إليه ) ، أي إلى العجل الذي أقامه صورة أخرى

- camel-like, ram-like, ewe-like, human-like, or otherwise - (the name would have been attributed) - in the passive or active construction, meaning that God, Glory be to Him, or the Samaritan, caused the act to be attributed to its cause - (to it), that is, to the calf had it been set up in another form,

Bālī Zāde

﴿صورة أخرى﴾

أي غير صورة العجل . قال الشيخ رضي الله عنه

i.e. other than the form of the calf. The Shaykh, may God be pleased with him, said

Bālī Zāde

﴿لنسب إليه اسم الصوت الذي لتلك الصورة كالرغاء للإبل والثواج للكباش والعياء للشياه والصوت للإنسان أو النطق أو الكلام﴾

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Bālī Zāde · line 6721English translation pending

Jāmī

﴿اسم الصوت الذي لتلك الصورة كالرغاء﴾

بضم الراء والغين المعجمة ( للإبل ) خاصة ( والثواج ) بضم المثلثة والجيم (للكباش ) خاصة ( واليعار ) بفتح الياء المنقوطة نقطتين من تحت العين المهملة ( للشاة ) خاصة

- with ḍamma on the rā and the dotted ghayn - (for camels) specifically, (and bleating) - with ḍamma on the thāʾ and the jīm - (for rams) specifically, (and bleating) - with fatḥa on the dotted yāʾ... (for ewes) specifically,

Ibn Turka

﴿كالرغاء للإبل ، والثواج للكباش ، والثغاء للشياة ، والصوت للإنسان﴾

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ممّن كان له صورة هذا النوع

— for whoever possessed the form of this species

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وَالصَّوْتِ لِلإِنْسَانِ

Only Jāmī comments here.

Jāmī

﴿والصوت للإنسان﴾

ولغيره أيضا ( أو النطق له ) خاصة

and for others as well, (or articulate utterance for him) specifically

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أَوِ النُّطْقِ

Only Ibn Turka comments here.

Ibn Turka

﴿أو النطق﴾

ممّن له الإدراك منهم والنظر في الأمور العقليّة

— for whoever among them possessed perception (idrāk) and reflection upon rational matters

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أَوِ الكَلَامِ

Ibn Turka

﴿أو الكلام﴾

لمن له الكمال الإنساني . وقد راعى المراتب الثلاث ، أعني أصل القابليّة وكمالها ، والواسطة بينهما في المادّة والصورة . فتكملت المراتب الستّ بذلك - فلا تغفل . وإذ قد عرفت أنّ الحياة - التي هي إمام أئمة الأسماء الإلهيّة - قد تسري في الموادّ الهيولانيّة لمواطأة الروح لها ، ويجعلها ذا صورة كماليّة وجمعيّة كليّة يصلح لأن تكون مصدرا للقوى الطبيعيّة والإدراكات الكليّة بحسب قوّة قبولها وقربها للاعتدال الجمعي الوحداني . قال الشيخ رضي الله عنه

speech (al-kalām)] — for whoever possesses human perfection. And he has taken into account the three levels, namely: the root of receptivity (aṣl al-qābiliyya) and its perfection, and the intermediary between the two, in matter and form. Thus the six levels are completed thereby — so do not be heedless. And since you have come to know that life — which is the imam of the imams of the Divine Names — may course through hylic materials (al-mawādd al-hayūlāniyya) through the spirit's treading upon them, making them possess a perfective and universally comprehensive form, fit to be a source for natural faculties and universal perceptions according to the strength of its receptivity and its proximity to the comprehensive, unitary equilibrium (al-iʿtidāl al-jamʿī al-waḥdānī). The Shaykh, may God be pleased with him, said

Jāmī

﴿والكلام فذلك القدر من الحياة السارية في الأشياء﴾

Quotes words that differ from our text (wavy underline).

بل الروح الذي منه سرت تلك الحياة في الأشياء

rather, the spirit from which that life permeated into things

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ʿAbd al-Razzāq al-Qāshānī (d. 730/1330), Sharḥ Fuṣūṣ al-Ḥikam

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Taken from: ibnalarabi.com/fusus/qashani.php. The OpenITI file's own header (#META# source) names this page: the text was copied from the Ibn ʿArabī website directed by Dr Mohamed Ali Haj Yousef. Every IAC-coded file used here names a page of that site in its header; barzakh is OpenITI's repository for texts awaiting integration into the corpus.

Licence: OpenITI distributes its texts under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0; ibnalarabi.com states © 1999–2024. The commentary itself is a classical work in the public domain; the edition behind the digital text is unidentified.

Muʾayyad al-Dīn al-Jandī (d. c. 691/1291), Sharḥ Fuṣūṣ al-Ḥikam

Digital text: OpenITI barzakh, 0691MuayyadDinJanadi.SharhCalaFususHikam.IAC00080-ara1 (commit 6b19bdc)

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ʿAfīf al-Dīn al-Tilimsānī (d. 690/1291), Sharḥ Fuṣūṣ al-Ḥikam

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Taken from: ibnalarabi.com/fusus/tilmasani.php. The OpenITI file's own header (#META# source) names this page: the text was copied from the Ibn ʿArabī website directed by Dr Mohamed Ali Haj Yousef. Every IAC-coded file used here names a page of that site in its header; barzakh is OpenITI's repository for texts awaiting integration into the corpus.

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Ṣāʾin al-Dīn Ibn Turka (d. 835/1432), Sharḥ Fuṣūṣ al-Ḥikam

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Nūr al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Jāmī (d. 898/1492), Sharḥ Fuṣūṣ al-Ḥikam

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Muṣṭafā b. Sulaymān Bālī Zāde (d. 1073/1663), Sharḥ Fuṣūṣ al-Ḥikam

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Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī (d. 673/1274), al-Fukūk fī asrār mustanadāt ḥikam al-Fuṣūṣ

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Missing here: Dāwūd al-Qayṣarī: no text for chapters 15–27. The OpenITI barzakh file (and the ibnalarabi.com pages it was copied from) repeats chapter 14 in their place; a usable copy of the print has not yet been found.

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