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In his ''[[al-Mizan]]'', [['Allama Tabataba'i]] writes that the story of Harut and Marut corresponds to myths maintained by the [[Jews]] about the two angels, and it is not dissimilar to ancient Greek myths about stars. | In his ''[[al-Mizan]]'', [['Allama Tabataba'i]] writes that the story of Harut and Marut corresponds to myths maintained by the [[Jews]] about the two angels, and it is not dissimilar to ancient Greek myths about stars. | ||
The myth appears in the Second Epistle of Peter: "For if God | The myth appears in the Second Epistle of Peter: "For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of deepest darkness to be kept until the judgment."{{enote|[2 Peter 2]:4, Warnings against false teachings}} | ||
Also, in verse 6 of the Epistle of Jude we read: "And the angels who | Also, in verse 6 of the Epistle of Jude we read: "And the angels who did not keep their own position, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains in deepest darkness for the judgment of the great day".{{enote|[Jude 1]:6, Three examples of judgment}} | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||