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.)252 253Then shall men and women come unto the place prepared for them.By their tongues wherewiththey have blasphemed the way of righteousness shall they be hanged up.There is spread underthem unquenchable fire, that they escape it not.Behold, another place: therein is a pit, great and full (of.) In it are they that have deniedrighteousness: and angels of punishment chastise them and there do they kindle upon them thefire of their torment.And again behold [two: corrupt] women: they hang them up by their neck and by their hair; theyshall cast them into the pit.These are they which plaited their hair, not for good (or, not to makethem beautiful) but to turn them to fornication, that they might ensnare the souls of men untoperdition.And the men that lay with them in fornication shall be hung by their loins in that placeof fire; and they shall say one to another: We knew not that we should come unto everlastingpunishment.And the murderers and them that have made common cause with them shall they cast into thefire, in a place full of venomous beasts, and they shall be tormented without rest, feeling theirpains; and their worms shall be as many in number as a dark cloud.And the angel Ezrael shallbring forth the souls of them that have been slain, and they shall behold the torment of them thatslew them, and say one to another: Righteousness and justice is the judgement of God.For weheard, but we believed not, that we should come into this place of eternal judgement.And near by this flame shall be a pit, great and very deep, and into it floweth from above allmanner of torment, foulness, and issue.And women are swallowed up therein up to their necksand tormented with great pain.These are they that have caused their children to be bornuntimely, and have corrupted the work of God that created them.Over against them shall beanother place where sit their children [both] alive, and they cry unto God.And flashes(lightnings) go forth from those children and pierce the eyes of them that for fornication's sakehave caused their destruction.Other men and women shall stand above them, naked; and their children stand over against themin a place of delight, and sigh and cry unto God because of their parents, saying: These are theythat have despised and cursed and transgressed thy commandments and delivered us unto death:they have cursed the angel that formed us, and have hanged us up, and withheld from us (or,begrudged us) the light which thou hast given unto all creatures.And the milk of their mothersflowing from their breasts shall congeal, and from it shall come beasts devouring flesh, whichshall come forth and turn and torment them for ever with their husbands, because they forsookthe commandments of God and slew their children.As for their children, they shall be deliveredunto the angel Temlakos (i.e.a care-taking angel: see above, in the Fragments).And they thatslew them shall be tormented eternally, for God willeth it so.Ezrael the angel of wrath shall bring men and women, the half of their bodies burning, and castthem into a place of darkness, even the hell of men; and a spirit of wrath shall chastise them withall manner of torment, and a worm that sleepeth not shall devour their entrails: and these are thepersecutors and betrayers of my righteous ones.And beside them that are there, shall be other men and women, gnawing their tongues; and theyshall torment them with red-hot iron and burn their eyes.These are they that slander and doubt ofmy righteousness.Other men and women whose works were done in deceitfulness shall havetheir lips cut off, and fire entereth into their mouth and their entrails.These are the falsewitnesses (al.these are they that caused the martyrs to die by their lying).253 254And beside them, in a place near at hand, upon the stone shall be a pillar of fire, and the pillar issharper than swords.And there shall be men and women clad in rags and filthy garments, andthey shall be cast thereon, to suffer the judgement of a torment that ceaseth not: these are theythat trusted in their riches and despised the widows and the woman with fatherless children.before God.And into another place hard by, full of filth, do they cast men and women up to the knees.Theseare they that lent money and took usury.And other men and women cast themselves down from an high place and return again and run,and devils drive them [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]