Christian Apocrypha and Early Christian Literature

has gone down to Hades, and come up and announced that there is judgment and retribution? And take heed, and see all his works w ...

what purpose have the in scriptions been graven on these plates? And he said to me: These are the names of the righteous, and of ...

along with them. And I was going along, guided by the angel, and he set me upon the river. And I saw there all the prophets; and ...

laid hold of an iron with his hand, and with it drew up the entrails of that old man through his mouth. And I asked the angel: M ...

voice: Have mercy upon us, Gabriel, who standest in the presence of God; for we heard that there was a judgment: behold, we know ...

And in succession they told me their names from Abraham to Manasseh. And one of them, Joseph who was sold in Egypt, says to me: ...

account of the rain; and I heard, Be patient until Elias my beloved shall pray, and I send rain upon the earth. ( 2 ) ...

THE GNOSTIC SOCIETY LIBRARY The Vision of Paul the Apostle (from the Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol X.) Here Begins the Vision of Sain ...

And frequently also the sea exclaimed saying: Lord God Almighty, men have defiled thy holy name in me; permit me to arise and c ...

command us to go and minister, lest others also do it, but the destitute above the rest who are on earth. And there came the voi ...

they who do evil from morning till evening. And I looked and saw a great cloud of fire spread over the whole world, and I said t ...

And he saith to me: Look again down on the earth, and watch the soul of an impious man going out of the body, which vexed the L ...

place him in outer darkness, where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth, and let him be there till the great day of judgment. ...

above of golden letters, and the angel tuned again to me and said: Blessed weft thou, if thou hadst entered into these doors, fo ...

and that land was seven times brighter than silver. And there were trees full of fruits from the roots to the highest branches, ...

I indeed entering the gates saw trees great and very high before the doors of the city, having no fruit but leaves only, and I ...

pilgrims, come, have an inheritance in the city of the Lord our God: every just man shall receive good things of God in the city ...

marith macha is: Let us all bless him together. I asked the angel and said, Sir, do all who say Alleluia bless the Lord? And the ...

knows also that there are punishments, and He patiently bears with the human race, dismissing each one to work his own will in t ...

who committed adultery having wives of their own: likewise also the women committed adultery having husbands of their own: there ...