Sacred Text · The Avesta

When the creation grows deathless

Zamyad Yasht (Yasht 19) · Yasht 19.90 · James Darmesteter

“When the creation will grow deathless, the prosperous creation of the Good Spirit, and the Druj shall perish, though she may rush on every side to kill the holy beings; she and her hundredfold brood shall perish, as it is the will of the Lord.”
Zamyad Yasht 19.90 · 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.

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How this connects to Jesus

The Yasht sees the day when the creation will grow deathless and the Druj, the Lie, shall perish with all her brood, as it is the will of the Lord. Scripture holds the same sober and shining hope of a final reckoning when death and the last enemy are undone (1 Corinthians 15:26; Revelation 20:14; 21:4). Where the Zoroastrian hope sees the Lie perish at the end, the Gospel says the decisive victory is already won at the empty tomb, and its fullness is yet to come.

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