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The Apocalypse of Sedrach

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Section 14

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XIV. And Sedrach saith to the archangel Michael: Hearken to me

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,

O

powerful

chief

,

and

help

thou

me

and

be

my

envoy

that

God

may

have

mercy

on

the

world

.

And

falling

on

their

faces

,

they

besought

the

Lord

and

said

:

O

Lord

,

teach

us

how

and

by

what

sort

of

repentance

and

by

what

labour

man

shall

be

saved

.

God

saith

:

By

repentances

,

by

intercessions

,

by

liturgies

,

by

tears

in

streams

,

in

hot

groanings

.

Dost

thou

not

know

that

my

prophet

David

was

saved

by

tears

,

and

the

rest

were

saved

in

one

moment

?

Thou

knowest

,

Sedrach

,

that

there

are

nations

which

have

not

the

law

and

which

do

the

works

of

the

law

:

for

if

they

are

unbaptized

and

my

divine

spirit

come

unto

them

and

they

turn

to

my

baptism

,

I

also

receive

them

with

my

righteous

ones

into

Abraham’s

bosom

.

And

there

are

some

who

have

been

baptized

with

my

baptism

and

who

have

shared

in

my

divine

part

and

become

reprobate

in

complete

reprobation

and

will

not

repent

:

and

I

suffer

them

with

much

compassion

and

much

pity

and

wealth

in

order

that

they

may

repent

,

but

they

do

the

things

which

my

divinity

hates

,

and

did

not

hearken

to

the

wise

man

asking

(

them

)

,

saying

,

we

by

no

means

justify

a

sinner

.

Dost

thou

not

most

certainly

know

that

it

is

written

:

And

those

who

repent

never

see

chastisement

?

And

they

did

not

hearken

to

the

Apostles

or

to

my

word

in

the

Gospels

,

and

they

grieve

my

angels

,

and

verily

they

do

not

attend

to

my

messenger

in

the

assemblies

(

for

communion

)

and

in

my

services

,

and

they

do

not

stand

in

my

holy

churches

,

but

they

stand

and

do

not

fall

down

and

worship

in

fear

and

trembling

,

but

boast

things

which

I

do

not

accept

,

or

my

holy

angels

.

Notes

13
Cf. Test. of Abraham, Rec. A. §§ xiv., xviii.
14
Rom. ii. 4.