and replaces it with the drug he thinks the physician intended. He tells the people, ‘This is what the original physician intended.’ The people then use the compound remedy in the manner prescribed by this interpreter’s interpretation, and the constitutions of many people are harmed by it.

Others then come along who recognize that this compound remedy has harmed people’s constitutions. They attempt to correct it by replacing some of its drugs with another drug, different from the original one. As a result, people develop a kind of illness different from the first. A third person then comes along and interprets the drugs in that compound differently from the second interpretation, causing people to develop a third kind of illness, different from the preceding two. A fourth interpreter then comes along and interprets yet another drug, different from the preceding drugs, causing people to develop a fourth kind of illness, different from the preceding illnesses.

As time passes with this major compound remedy, and people subject its drugs to interpretation, altering and replacing them, it causes various illnesses, until the intended benefit of that compound remedy is lost for most people. Such is the condition of the sects that have arisen within this revealed Law: each sect has interpreted the revealed Law in a way different from