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The History of Joseph the Carpenter

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Section 28

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28. O Death! who makest all knowledge to vanish

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away

,

and

raisest

so

many

tears

and

lamentations

,

surely

it

is

God

my

Father

Himself

who

hath

granted

thee

this

power

.

For

men

die

for

the

transgression

of

Adam

and

his

wife

Eve

,

and

Death

spares

not

so

much

as

one

.

Nevertheless

,

nothing

happens

to

any

one

,

or

is

brought

upon

him

,

without

the

command

of

my

Father

.

There

have

certainly

been

men

who

have

prolonged

their

life

even

to

nine

hundred

years

;

but

they

died

.

Yea

,

though

some

of

them

have

lived

longer

,

they

have

,

notwithstanding

,

succumbed

to

the

same

fate

;

nor

has

any

one

of

them

ever

said

:

I

have

not

tasted

death

.

For

the

Lord

never

sends

the

same

punishment

more

than

once

,

since

it

hath

pleased

my

Father

to

bring

it

upon

men

.

And

at

the

very

moment

when

it

,

going

forth

,

beholds

the

command

descending

to

it

from

heaven

,

it

says

:

I

will

go

forth

against

that

man

,

and

will

greatly

move

him

.

Then

,

without

delay

,

it

makes

an

onset

on

the

soul

,

and

obtains

the

mastery

of

it

,

doing

with

it

whatever

it

will

.

For

,

because

Adam

did

not

the

will

of

my

Father

,

but

transgressed

His

commandment

,

the

wrath

of

my

Father

was

kindled

against

him

,

and

He

doomed

him

to

death

;

and

thus

it

was

that

death

came

into

the

world

.

But

if

Adam

had

observed

my

Father’s

precepts

,

death

would

never

have

fallen

to

his

lot

.

Think

you

that

I

can

ask

my

good

Father

to

send

me

a

chariot

of

fire

,

which

may

take

up

the

body

of

my

father

Joseph

,

and

convey

it

to

the

place

of

rest

,

in

order

that

it

may

dwell

with

the

spirits

?

But

on

account

of

the

transgression

of

Adam

,

that

trouble

and

violence

of

death

has

descended

upon

all

the

human

race

.

And

it

is

for

this

cause

that

I

must

die

according

to

the

flesh

,

for

my

work

which

I

have

created

,

that

they

may

obtain

grace

.

Notes

29
2 Kings ii. 11.