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means “O Thou Who answerest prayers out of thy mercy and grace! Show us the path of the apostles and the truthful and the faithful who, having thrown themselves deeply in supplication and striving, received from Thee the favour of various forms of knowledge, truths, visions and revelations, and attained to and reached the stage of perfect knowledge and wisdom by means of their perpetual prayer, humility and? noble ? ? ?? ? deeds”; the phrase ???? ???????? ??? ? ? ?? ? ??? ?? ?? ?? ? ????? ???????????answers to ?? ??? ?? ??? ??? ??? ???? ? ??????in that one who recites ??? ? ??? ? ? ? ?? ? and repeats ???? ??????? ?????? ??? ??? ??? ? ? ?? ? ???????????seeks benefit from the ??? ? ? ?? fountainhead of ? ? ??? ?? ?? ??????and ??? ??? put to the sword or taken to other lands as prisoners. The final result was that after the death of Jesus (peace be on him), they ? remained perpetu??? ? ? ?? ally ?‘( ??????? ??????those upon ??? ??? whom wrath is brought down’). Since it was known to God Most High that they were a perverse people, they had accordingly been threatened in the Torah for the most part with the punishments of this world. Many a time Divine wrath descended upon them in a horrible form, since they used to oppress the righteous servants of God with their hands and tongues, and this is why heaven’s wrath waxed hot against them in this Yellowstone National Park it means “O! Thou Master of the very world so that they might day of Requital! Save us from serve as a warning to those people who, in time the calamity that, on account of thy displeasure, to come, would oppose the apostles of God and we be smitten in this world like the Jews with His righteous servants in the same way and torafflictions such as plague, etc., or that, having ment them, or hatch dark plots to have them put gone astray like the Christians from the path of them to death or held in disrepute. salvation, be held deserving of punishment in A warning the next world.” In? this verse, the Christians ? have been called ? ????????for the reason that no In the teaching of this prayer, therefore, there is ??? an implicit suggestion that you should eschew visitation o ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????e?)??????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????????????)???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????!???????f8? ??fH????fH?)????????????fH?f8?f