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Apocalypse of Abraham 24

Vision of the Throne

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And He said to me: " Being angered at the nations on thy account, and on account of the people of thy family who are (to be) separated after thee, as thou seest in the picture the burden (of destiny) that (is laid) upon them — and I will tell thee what shall be, and how much shall be, in the last days.

2Look now at everything in the picture." And I looked and saw there what was before me in creation; I saw Adam, and Eve existing with him, and with them the cunning Adversary, and Cain who acted lawlessly through the Adversary, and the slaughtered Abel, (and) the destruction brought and caused upon him through the lawless one.

3I saw there also Impurity, and those who lust after it, and its pollution, and their jealousy, and the fire of their corruption in the lowest parts of the earth.

4I saw there Theft, and those who hasten after it, and the arrangement [of their retribution, the judgement of the Great Assize].

5I saw there naked men, the foreheads against each other, and their disgrace, and their passion which (they had) against each other, and their retribution.

6I saw there Desire, and in her hand the head of every kind of lawlessness [and her scorn and her waste assigned to perdition].

About Apocalypse of Abraham

Abraham destroys his father's idols, is taken on high and sees the whole of history laid out like a picture, the fall in Eden included. English text: The Apocalypse of Abraham (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1918), G. H. Box, com J. I. Landsman, 1918 (public domain). Portuguese and Spanish: Lux Veritas translations from this edition.

Source: The Apocalypse of Abraham (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1918), G. H. Box, com J. I. Landsman (1918) · public domain