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Apócrifos · Capítulo 21 de 22

History of the Rechabites 21

Os Bem-aventurados

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After this I lived thirty-six years, and communicated the way of life of the blessed to the fathers in the desert.

2But the Devil wept because of the tables of the life of the blessed, saying, If this get abroad in the world, I shall be mocked, and these will remain without sin and I alone in folly.

3And after the completion of the thirty-six years, the angels of God came to me as to the blessed. And all the monks were gathered together and all who heard it, and this testament was read to all of them, and in such life he gave up his soul to God.

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Source: Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 9, The Narrative of Zosimus (Buffalo: Christian Literature Publishing Co.), W. A. Craigie (1896) · public domain