"Rev. 20. 14. "Rev. 21. 4.

w ch. 9. 11.

* ch. 7. 23. Ps. 14. 1 & 53. 1.

y Cp. Luke
16. 24.
* Ezek. 18.
22.

Wisdom 1.

13.

a Rom. 1. 21. 2 Tim. 3. 2. 6 See ver. 18.

c See ch. 7.
[44].
i ch. 14. 9.

e ('p. ch. 4.

52

& 5. 1.

fCp. Matt. 24.33

& Mark 13. 29

31.

7 ch. 5. 56
& 6. 18.
h Matt. 24.7.

Mark 13. 8.
Luke 21 10,

11.

being perfect aforehand. 53 The root of
evil is sealed up from you, weakness is
done away from you, and 1[death] is
hidden; hell and corruption are fled
into forgetfulness: 54" sorrows are passed
away, and in the end is shewed the
treasure of immortality. 55 Therefore
ask thou no more questions concerning
the multitude of them that perish.
56 w For when they had received liberty,
they despised the Most High, thought
scorn of his law, and forsook his ways.
57 Moreover they have trodden down his
righteous, 58 and said in their heart,
that there is no God; yea, and that
knowing they must die. 59 For as
the things aforesaid shall receive you,
y so thirst and pain which are prepared
shall receive them: for the Most High
willed not that men should come to
nought: 60 but they which be created
have themselves defiled the name of him
that made them, and were aunthankful
unto him which prepared life for them.
61b And therefore is my judgement now
at hand, 62 which I have not shewed
unto all men, but unto thee, dand a
few like thee.

Then answered I and said, 63 Behold,
O Lord, now hast thou shewed me the
multitude of the wonders, which thou
wilt do in the last times: but at what
time, thou hast not shewed me.

And he answered me, and said,

• ch. 8. 56.

have received benefits, and yet have not
known me; 110 and as many as have
scorned my law, while they had yet
liberty, and, when as yet place of repent-
ance was open unto them, understood
not, but despised it; 12 the same must
know it after death by torment. 13 And
therefore be thou no longer curious how
the ungodly shall be punished; but inquire
how the righteous shall be saved, 4they
whose the world is, and for whom the Cp. 1 Cor.
world was created.

3.22.

? See ch. 6. 55.

14 And I answered and said, 15 I have said before, and now do speak, and will speak it also hereafter, that there be See ch. 8. more of them which perish, than of them which shall be saved: 16 like as a wave is greater than a drop.

1.

3. 12-15.

17 And he answered me, saying, Like as the field is, so is also the seed; and as the flowers be, such are the colours also; and such as the work is, such also See 1 Cor. is the 5judgement thereon; and as is the husbandman, so is his threshing-floor also. For there was a time in the world, 18 even then when I was preparing for them that now live, before the world was made for them to dwell in; and then no man spake against me, 19 for 6there was not any: but now they which are created in this world that is prepared, both with ta table that Cp. Ps. 23. faileth not, and a law which is unsearchable, are corrupted in their man

9 Measure thou diligently within thy ners. 20 v So I considered my world,

self: and when thou seest that a certain part of the signs are past, which have been told thee beforehand, then shalt thou understand, that it is the very time, wherein the Most High 9 will & Luke 21. visit the world which was made by him. 3 And when there shall be seen in the world hearthquakes, disquietude of peoples, devices of nations, wavering of leaders, disquietude of princes, 4then shalt thou understand, that the Most High spake of these things from the days that were aforetime from the beginning. 5 For like as of all that is made in the world, the beginning 2 is evident, and the end manifest; 6 so also are the times of the Most High: the beginnings are manifest in wonders and mighty works, and the end in effects and signs. 7 And every one that shall be saved, and shall be able to escape by his works, j or by faith, whereby he hath believed, 8 shall be preserved from the said perils, and shall see my salvation in my land, and within my borders, which I have sanctified for me from the beginning. 9m Then shall they be amazed, which now have abused my ways: and they that have cast them away despitefully shall dwell in torments. Ion For as many as in their life

and, lo, it was destroyed, and my earth,
and, lo, it was in peril, because of the
devices that were come into it. 21 And
I saw, and spared them, but not greatly,
and saved me a grape out of a cluster,
and wa plant out of 7a great forest.
22 Let the multitude perish then, which
was born in vain; and let my grape be
saved, and my plant; for with great
labour have I made them perfect.
23 Nevertheless if thou wilt cease yet

seven days more, (howbeit thou shalt
not fast in them, 24 y but shalt go into
a field of flowers, where no house is
builded, and eat only of the flowers of
the field; and thou shalt taste no flesh,
and shalt drink no wine, but shalt eat
flowers only;) 25 and pray unto the Most
High continually, then will I come and
talk with thee.

26 So I went my way, like as he commanded me, into the field which is called 8 Ardat; and there I sat among the flowers, and did eat of the herbs of the field, and the meat of the same satisfied me. 27 And it came to pass after seven days that I lay upon the grass, a and my heart was vexed again, like as before: 28 cand my mouth was opened, and I began to speak before the Most High, and said, 29 O Lord, thou

3 Or, me 4 So the

5 So the Ethiopic and

1 After the chief Oriental versions. 2 So the Syriac. The Latin is corrupt.
Syriac and other versions. The Latin has and whose...created, and when.
Arabic. The Latin has creation. 6 So the Syriac. 7 So the Syriac and other versions. The Latin
has great tribes. 8The Syriac and Ethiopic have Arphad.

* Jer. 2. 6.

ƒ See ch. 8. 6.

7 Acts 7. 53. h ch. 14. 30.

didst shew thyself among us, unto our fathers in the wilderness, when they went forth out of Egypt, and when they came into the wilderness, ewhere no man treadeth and that beareth no fruit; 30 and thou didst say, Hear me, thou Israel; and mark my words, O seed of Jacob. 31 For, behold, I sow my law in you, and it shall bring forth fruit in you, and ye shall be glorified in it for ever. 329 But our fathers, which received the law, kept it not, and observed iSee ver. 37. not the statutes: and the fruit of the law did not perish, neither could it, for it was thine; 33 yet they that received it perished, because they kept not the thing that was sown in them. 34 And, lo, it is a custom, that when the ground hath received seed, or the sea a ship, or any vessel meat or drink, and when it cometh to pass that that which is sown, or that which is launched, 35 or the things which have been received, should come to an end, these come to an end, but the receptacles remain: yet with us it hath not happened so. 36 For we that have received the law shall perish by sin, and our heart also which received it. 37 Notwithstanding the law perisheth Matt. 5. 18. not, but remaineth in its honour.

✓ ver. 32.

Isai. 40. 8.

Luke 16. 17.

41, 44.

38 And when spake these things in my heart, I looked about me with mine Cp. ch. 10. eyes, and upon the right side I saw ka woman, and, behold, she mourned and wept with a loud voice, and was much grieved in mind, and her clothes were rent, mand she had ashes upon her head. 39" Then let I my thoughts go wherein I was occupied, and turned me unto her, 40 and said unto her, Wherefore weepest thou? and why art thou grieved in thy mind?

1 Sam. 4. 12. Esth. 4. 1. See Josh. 7.6.

m Cp. Rest of Esth. 14. 2.

n Cp. ch. 10.

5.

ch. 10. 45.

1. 10, 11.

7 Cp. Luke 1. 48.

41 And she said unto me, Let me alone, my lord, that I may bewail myself, and add unto my sorrow, for I am sore vexed in my mind, and brought very low.

bours rose up to comfort me: and I
remained quiet unto the second day at
night. 3 And it came to pass, when
they had all left off to comfort me, to
the end I might be quiet, then rose I up
by night, and fled, and came hither into
this field, as thou seest. 4 And I do
now purpose not to return into the city,
but here to stay, and neither to eat nor
drink, but continually to mourn and to
fast until I die.

39.

w ch. 7. [54]
& 8. 2.
Cp. ch. 5.
43.

See Wisdom 7. 1.

15.

5 Then left I the meditations wherein " Cp. ch. 9. I was, and answered her in anger, and said, 6 Thou foolish woman above all other, seest thou not our mourning, and what hath happened unto us? 7 how that Sion "the mother of us all is full Gal. 4. 26. of sorrow, and much humbled. 82 It is right now to mourn very sore, seeing we all mourn, and to be sorrowful, seeing we are all in sorrow, but thou sorrowest for one son. 9w For ask the earth, and she shall tell thee, that it is she which ought to mourn for so many that grow upon her. 10 For out of her all had their beginnings, and others shall come; and, behold, they walk almost all into destruction, and the Cp. ch. 9. multitude of them is utterly rooted out. 11 Who then should make more mourning, she, that hath lost so great a multitude, or thou, which art grieved but for one? 12 But if thou sayest unto me, My lamentation is not like the earth's, for I have lost the fruit of my womb, which I brought forth with pains, and bare with sorrows: 13 but it is with the earth after the manner of the earth; the multitude present in it is gone, as it came: 14 then say I unto thee, Like as thou hast brought forth with sorrow; even so the earth also hath given her fruit, namely, man, ever since the beginning unto him that made her. 15 Now therefore keep thy sorrow to thyself, and bear with a good courage the adversities which have befallen thee. 16 For aif thou shalt acknowledge the decree of God to be just, thou shalt both receive thy son in time, and shalt be praised among women. 17 Go thy way then into the city to thine husband.

18 And she said unto me, That will I not do: I will not go into the city, but here will I die.

* Gen. 3. 16. Cp. John 16. 21.

a Cp. 1 Sam.

3. 18

& Isai. 39.

8.

42 And I said unto her, What aileth thee? tell me. 43 She said unto me, I thy servant was barren, and had no child, though I had a husband thirty years. 44 And every hour and every PCp. 1 Sam. day these thirty years did I make my prayer to the Most High day and night. 45 And it came to pass after thirty years that God heard me thine handmaid, and looked upon my low estate, and con- 19 So I proceeded to speak further sidered my trouble, and gave me a son: unto her, and said, 20 Do not so, but and I rejoiced in him greatly, I and suffer thyself to be prevailed on by my husband, and "all my 1neighbours: reason of the adversities of Sion; and and we gave great honour unto the be comforted by reason of the sorrow Mighty. 46 And I nourished him with of Jerusalem. 21 For thou seest that great travail. 47 So when he grew up, our sanctuary is laid waste, our altar 2 Chr. 36. and I came to take him a wife, I made broken down, our temple destroyed; a feast day. I And it so came 22 c our psaltery is brought low, our IO to pass, that when my son was song is put to silence, our rejoicing is entered into his wedding chamber, at an end; the light of our candlestick he fell down, and died. 2 Then we all is put out, the ark of our covenant is Cp.1 Macc. overthrew the lights, and all my 1neigh-spoiled, our holy things are defiled, and

f Lam. 5. 13.

Cp. Jer. 22. 24

& Hag. 2.

23.

h Cp. Ps. 44.

10

& 106. 41.

i ver. 42. Rev. 21. 10, 14.

j ch. 4. 1.

32.

ver. 27.

62.
2 Chr. 7. 4.

the name that is called upon us is thee. 398 He hath seen that thy way is * See ch. 6. profaned; our freemen are despitefully right for that thou sorrowest continutreated, our priests are burnt, our Le- ally for thy people, and makest great Lam. 5. 11. vites are gone into captivity, our virgins lamentation for Sion. 40 This therefore are defiled, and our wives ravished; our is the meaning of the vision. 41 t The ch. 9. 38. righteous men carried away, our little woman which appeared unto thee a little ones betrayed, four young men are while ago, whom thou sawest mourning, brought into bondage, and our strong and begannest to comfort her: 42 but now men are become weak; 23 and, what is seest thou the likeness of the woman more than all, the seal of Sion-for no more, but there appeared unto thee she hath now lost the seal of her honour, a city in building: 43 and whereas she told hand is delivered into the hands of them thee of the death of her son, this is the that hate us. 24 Thou therefore shake solution: 44 This woman, whom thou off thy great heaviness, and put away sawest, is 2 Sion, 2 whom thou now from thee the multitude of sorrows, that seest as a city builded; 45 and whereas the Mighty may be merciful unto thee "she said unto thee, that she hath beench. 9. 43. again, and the Most High may give thee thirty years barren, it is, because there rest, even ease from thy travails. were three 2 thousand years in the world wherein there was no offering as yet offered in her. 46 And it came to pass after three thousand years that Solomon builded the city, and woffered offer-1 Kin. 8. ings: then it was that the barren bare a son. 47 And whereas she told thee that she nourished him with travail: that was the dwelling in Jerusalem. 48 And ver. 1. whereas she said unto thee, My son coming into his marriage chamber died, and that misfortune befell her: this was the destruction that came to Jerusalem. 49 And, behold, thou sawest her likeness, how she mourned for her son, and thou begannest to comfort her for what hath befallen her; these were the things to be opened unto thee. 50 For now the Most High, seeing that thou art grieved unfeignedly, and sufferest from thy whole heart for her, hath shewed thee the brightness of her glory, and the comeliness of her beauty: 51 and therefore I bade thee remain in the field where no house was builded: 52 for I knew that the Most High would shew this unto thee. 53 Therefore I commanded thee to come into the field, where no foundation of any building was. 54 For in the place wherein the city of the Most High was to be shewed, the work of no man's building could stand. 55 Therefore fear thou not, nor let thine heart be affrighted, but go thy way in, and a see the beauty and greatness of the building, as much as thine eyes be able to see: 56 and then shalt thou hear as much as thine ears may comprehend. 57b For Cp. ch. 12. thou art blessed above many, and with the Most High art called by name, like as but few. 58 But to-morrow at night thou shalt remain here; 59 and so shall the Most High shew thee those visions in dreams, of what the Most High will do unto them that dwell upon earth in the last days. So I slept that night and another, like as he commanded me.

20, 21.

25 And it came to pass, while I was talking with her, behold, her face upon a sudden shined exceedingly, and her countenance glistered like lightning, so that I was sore afraid of her, and mused what this might be; 26 and, behold, suddenly she made a great cry very fearful; so that the earth shook at the noise. 27 And I looked, and, behold, the woman appeared unto me no more, but there was a city builded, and a place shewed itself from large foundations: then was I afraid, and cried with a loud voice, and said, 28 Where is J Uriel the angel, who came unto me at the first? for he hath caused me to fall into this great trance, and mine end is turned into corruption, and my prayer * Cp. Dan. 9. to rebuke. 29k And as I was speaking these words, behold, the angel who had come unto me at the first came unto me, and he looked upon me: 30land, lo, I lay as one that had been dead, mand Dan. 8. mine understanding was taken from me; and he took me by the right hand, n and comforted me, and set me upon my feet, and said unto me, 31 What aileth thee? and why art thou so disquieted? and why is thine understanding troubled, and the thoughts of thine heart? 32 And I said, Because thou hast forsaken me: yet I did according to thy words, and went into the field, and, lo, I have seen, and yet see, that which I am not able to express. 33 And he said unto me, ? Stand up like a man, and I will advise thee. 34 Then said I, Speak on, my Lord; only forsake me not, lest I die frustrate of my hope. 35 For I have seen that I knew not, and hear that I do not know. 369 Or is my sense deceived, or my soul in a dream? 37 Now therefore I beseech thee to shew thy servant concerning this trance.

'Rev. 1. 17. m ch. 5. 14. 17, 18.

n ch. 5. 15.

• Cp. ch. 9.

24.

P See ch. 6. 13.

? See Ecclus. 34. 2.

Cp. Isai.

54. 11.

Cp. ver. 32

& ch. 9, 24.

a Cp. Ps. 48. 12, 13.

7.

c See ch. 7. [44].

And it came to pass the second Cp. Dan.

night that I saw a dream, and, be-
hold, there came up dfrom the sea

The Syriac has to draw near unto her, and my heart was greatly astonied, and when I mused dc.
Omitted in the Oriental versions.

2 So the Syriac and other versions, The Latin is incorrect.

7.3
& Rev. 13.
1.

Cp. Deut. 28.49

& Ezek. 17.

3

& Dan. 7. 4.

f ver. 22.
ch. 12. 16.
Cp. Dan.
7.2.

hver. 11. i ver. 11 (mg.), 22, 23. jver. 29. ch. 12. 22.

k ch. 12. 17.

I ver. 3.

Tver. 20.

ch. 12. 22.

Cp. ver. 1.

ean eagle, which had twelve feathered
wings, and three heads.
2 And I saw,
and, behold, she spread her wings over
all the earth, and all the winds of
heaven blew on her, and the clouds
were gathered together against her.
3 And I beheld, and out of her wings
there grew other wings hover against
them; and they became little wings
and small. 43 But her heads were at
rest: the head in the midst was greater
than the other heads, yet rested it with
them. 5 Moreover I beheld, and, lo, the
eagle flew with her wings, to reign over
the earth, and over them that dwell
therein. 6 And I beheld how that all
things under heaven were subject unto
her, and no man spake against her, no,
not one creature upon earth. 7 And I
beheld, and, lo, the eagle rose upon her
talons, and uttered her voice to her
wings, saying, 8 Watch not all at once:
sleep every one in his own place, and
watch by course: 9 but let the heads be
preserved for the last. 10 And I beheld,
kand, lo, the voice went not out of her
heads, but from the midst of her body.
II And I numbered 2 her wings that
were over against the other, and, be-
hold, there were eight of them. 12 And
I beheld, and, lo, mon the right side
there arose one wing, and reigned over
all the earth; 13 and so it was, that
when it reigned, the end of it came, and 36 Then I heard a voice, which said
it appeared not, so that the place thereof unto me, Look before thee, and con-
appeared no more: and the next follow-sider the thing that thou seest.
ing rose up, and reigned, and it bare rule
a great time; 14 and it happened, that
when it reigned, the end of it came also,
so that it appeared no more, like as the
first. 15 And, lo, there came a voice
unto it, and said, 16 Hear thou that hast
borne rule over the earth all this time:
this I proclaim unto thee, before thou
Cp. ch. 12. shalt appear no more, 17 There shall
none after thee attain unto thy time,
neither unto the half thereof. 18 Then
arose the third, and had the rule as the
others before, and it also appeared no
more. 19 So went it with all the wings
one after another, as that every one
bare rule, and then appeared no more.
20 And I beheld, and, lo, in process of
time the wings that followed were set
up upon the right side, that they
might rule also; and some of them
ruled, but within a while they appeared
no more: 21 some also of them were set
up, but ruled not. 22 After this I be-
held, and, lo, P the twelve wings appeared
no more, nor a two of the little wings:
23 and there was no more left upon the
eagle's body, but the three heads that
rested, and six little wings. 24 And I
beheld, and, lo, stwo little wings divided
themselves from the six, and remained
under the head that was upon the right

side: but four remained in their place.
25 And I beheld, and, lo, these under
wings thought to set up themselves, and
to have the rule. 26 And I beheld, and,
lo, there was one set up, but within a
while it appeared no more. 27 A second
also, and it was sooner away than the
first. 28 And I beheld, and, lo, the two
that remained thought also in themselves
to reign: 29 and while they so thought,
behold, there awaked tone of the heads ver. 4.
that were at rest, namely, it that was in
the midst; for that was greater than
the two other heads. 30 And I beheld
how that it joined the two other heads
with it. 31 And, behold, the head was
turned with them that were with it, and
did eat up the two under wings that
thought to have reigned. 32 But this
head held the whole earth in possession,
and bare rule over those that dwell
therein with much oppression; and itch. 12. 24.
had the governance of the world more
than all the wings that had been. 33w And
after this I beheld, and, lo, the head also
that was in the midst suddenly appeared
no more, like as the wings. 34 But there
remained the two heads, which also in
like sort reigned over the earth, and
over those that dwell therein. 35 And
I beheld, and, lo, the head upon the
right side devoured it that was upon the
left side.

15.

° ver. 12.

P ver. 1.

7 ver. 3, 11

(mg.).

* ver. 4, 29.

ch. 12. 2.

Cp. ch. 12.

26.

Cp. ch. 12.

24.

37 And I beheld, and, lo, as it were a lion ch. 12. 31. roused out of the wood roaring: and I heard how that he sent out a man's voice unto the eagle, and spake, saying, 38 Hear thou, I will talk with thee, and the Most High shall say unto thee, 39 Art not thou it that remainest of a the four beasts, whom I made to reign in my world, that the end of my times might come through them? 40 And bthe fourth came, and overcame all the beasts that were past, and held the world in governance with great trembling, and the whole compass of the earth with grievous oppression; and so long time dwelt he upon the earth with deceit. 41 And thou hast judged the earth, but not with truth. 42 For thou hast afflicted the meek, thou hast hurt the peaceable, thou hast hated them that speak truth, thou hast loved liars, and destroyed the dwellings of them that brought forth fruit, and hast cast down the walls of such as did thee no harm. 43 Therefore is thy insolent dealing come up unto the Most High, and thy pride unto the Mighty. 44 The Most High also hath looked upon his times, and, behold, they are ended, and his ages are fulfilled. 45 And therefore appear no more, thou eagle, nor thy horrible wings, nor 'thy

1 So the chief Oriental versions. The Latin has only and were gathered together.
3 The Syriac has little wings.

2 The Syriac has her little wings, and, &c.

The Ethiopic has left.