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The victorious Saoshyant

Zamyad Yasht (Yasht 19) · Yasht 19.89 · James Darmesteter

“That will cleave unto the victorious Saoshyant and his helpers, when he shall restore the world, which will (thenceforth) never grow old and never die, never decaying and never rotting, ever living and ever increasing, and master of its wish, when the dead will rise, when life and immortality will come, and the world will be restored at its wish.”
Zamyad Yasht 19.89 · James Darmesteter, SBE XXIII

Translation: James Darmesteter (1883), The Zend-Avesta, Part II (The Sirozahs, Yasts and Nyayis), Sacred Books of the East vol. XXIII, public domain, accessed via the American Edition (1898) hosted at avesta.org (digital edition © 1995 Joseph H. Peterson; the underlying Darmesteter translation is public domain). Reproduced in context; verse numbers follow the standard Yasht numbering.

Christian comparison

How this connects to Jesus

The Zamyad Yasht awaits the victorious Saoshyant, the coming benefactor who will restore the world so that it never grows old and never dies, when the dead will rise and life and immortality will come. Christians proclaim that the Saviour has come and will come again, and that in him this hope is answered, for Jesus said, I am the resurrection and the life; whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live (John 11:25). Compare the awaited Saoshyant with the Saviour who has already conquered death.

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