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The messengers receive the departing ruach with songs and carry it upward.
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Other companies of messengers come to meet it.
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The people below hear heavenly praise and answer with praise from the land.
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Thus the life of the community is depicted as joined continually to the heavenly host.
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Later Christian recensions explicitly place the Son and eucharistic language into this scene. These readings are retained in the provenance record as later theological transmission and are not allowed to erase the earlier account of the …
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Having completed their testimony, the elders gave the tablets to Zosimos and led him again toward the river.