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Who is able to interpret the wonders of the Lord?
For he who could interpret would be dissolved and would become that which is interpreted.
For the extension of my hands is His sign:
And my expansion is the upright tree [or cross].
My heart is delighted and exults: like the babe who exults in the womb of his mother:
I believed; therefore I was at rest; for faithful is He in whom I have believed:
He has richly blessed me and my head is with Him: and the sword shall not divide me from Him, nor the scimitar;
And He showed me His sign: forth and given me to drink, and from that life is the spirit within me, and it cannot die, for it lives.
For their thought is corrupt and their understanding perverted.
For the thought of the Most High cannot be anticipated; and His heart is superior to all wisdom. Hallelujah.
The Lord is my hope: in Him I shall not be confounded.
For I believed in the Lord's Messiah: and it appeared to me that He is the Lord;
Fill ye waters for yourselves from the living fountain of the Lord, for it is opened to you:
For fair it is and pure and gives rest to the soul. Much more pleasant are its waters than honey;
And the honeycomb of bees is not to be compared with it.
For it flows forth from the lips of the Lord and from the heart of the Lord is its name.
But I stood unshaken like a firm rock which is beaten by the waves and endures.
To the blessed there is joy from their hearts, and light from Him that dwells in them:
And words from the Truth, who was self-originate: for He is strengthened by the holy power of the Most High: and He is unperturbed for ever and ever. Hallelujah.
And words from the Truth, who was self-originate: for He is strengthened by the holy power of the Most High: and He is unperturbed for ever and ever. Hallelujah.
I am your judge; and they who have put me on shall not be injured: but they shall possess the new world that is incorrupt:
No way is hard where there is a simple heart.
No way is hard where there is a simple heart.
Nor is there any wound where the thoughts are upright:
Nor is there any storm in the depth of the illuminated thought:
Where one is surrounded on every side by beauty, there is nothing that is divided.
Where one is surrounded on every side by beauty, there is nothing that is divided.
Where one is surrounded on every side by beauty, there is nothing that is divided.
The likeness of what is below is that which is above; for everything is above: what is below is nothing but the imagination of those that are without knowledge.
The likeness of what is below is that which is above; for everything is above: what is below is nothing but the imagination of those that are without knowledge.
The likeness of what is below is that which is above; for everything is above: what is below is nothing but the imagination of those that are without knowledge.
The likeness of what is below is that which is above; for everything is above: what is below is nothing but the imagination of those that are without knowledge.
The likeness of what is below is that which is above; for everything is above: what is below is nothing but the imagination of those that are without knowledge.
The likeness of what is below is that which is above; for everything is above: what is below is nothing but the imagination of those that are without knowledge.
And I saw the destroyer of destruction, when the bride who is corrupted is adorned: and the who corrupts and is corrupted;
And I saw the destroyer of destruction, when the bride who is corrupted is adorned: and the who corrupts and is corrupted;
And I saw the destroyer of destruction, when the bride who is corrupted is adorned: and the who corrupts and is corrupted;
And I asked the Truth 'Who are these?'; and He said to me, 'This is the deceiver and the error:
For the sign in them is the Lord; and the sign is the way of those who cross in the name of the Lord;
For the sign in them is the Lord; and the sign is the way of those who cross in the name of the Lord;
And His footsteps stand firm on the water, and are not injured; they are as firm as a tree that is truly set up.
So also is my hope on Thee, my God.
And His inheritance is immortal life, and those who participate in it are incorrupt. Hallelujah.
For a great day has shined upon us: and marvellous is He who has given us of His glory.
And His Word is with us in all our way;
The Messiah is truly one; and He was known before the foundation of the world,
For the stretching of my hands is His sign:
My expansion is the outspread tree which was set up on the way of the Righteous One.
And as the couch that is spread in the house of the bridegroom and bride,
So is my love over those that believe in me.
Or how shall one speak of Your praises? or to whom shall that which is in Your law be explained? Or shall the world return to its nature of aforetime), and the age revert to primeval silence? And shall the multitude of souls be taken away, and the nature of man not again be named? And where is all that which you did say regarding us?'
Or how shall one speak of Your praises? or to whom shall that which is in Your law be explained? Or shall the world return to its nature of aforetime), and the age revert to primeval silence? And shall the multitude of souls be taken away, and the nature of man not again be named? And where is all that which you did say regarding us?'
[Dost you think that this is that city of which I said: "On the palms of My hands have I graven you"?
This building now built in your midst is not that which is revealed with Me, that which prepared beforehand here from the time when I took counsel to make Paradise, and showed Adam before he sinned, but when he transgressed the commandment it was removed from him, as also Paradise.
This building now built in your midst is not that which is revealed with Me, that which prepared beforehand here from the time when I took counsel to make Paradise, and showed Adam before he sinned, but when he transgressed the commandment it was removed from him, as also Paradise.
And now, behold, it is preserved with Me, as Paradise.
For the time comes when Jerusalem also will be delivered for a time, Until it is said, that it is again restored for ever.'
For the time comes when Jerusalem also will be delivered for a time, Until it is said, that it is again restored for ever.'
Blessed is he who was not born, Or he, who having been born, has died.
And do thou, O sun withhold the light of your rays. And do thou, O moon, extinguish the multitude of your light; For why should light rise again Where the light of Zion is darkened?
Or why, again, should mankind have sons? Or why should the seed of their kind again be named, Where this mother is desolate, And her sons are led into captivity?
But now, lo! the grief is infinite, And the lamentation measureless, For lo! you are prospered And Zion desolate.
For assuredly in its own season shall the (divine) wrath awake against you. Which now in long-suffering is held in as it were by reins.
'Why hath the mighty God brought upon us this retribution?' Say you to them, you and those like you who shall have seen this evil: '(This is the evil) and retribution which is coming upon you and upon your people in its (destined) time that the nations may be thoroughly smitten.
'Why hath the mighty God brought upon us this retribution?' Say you to them, you and those like you who shall have seen this evil: '(This is the evil) and retribution which is coming upon you and upon your people in its (destined) time that the nations may be thoroughly smitten.
For what advantage is there in this, or what (evil), worse than what' we have seen befall us, are we to expect to see?
For as the breath ascends involuntarily, and again dies, so it is with the nature of men, who depart not according to their own will, and know not what will befall them in the end.
But you know accurately what you have done by means of Your servants; for we are not able to understand that which is good as you art, our Creator.
And as regards what you did say touching the righteous, that on account of them has this world come, so also again shall that, which is to come, come on their account.
For this world is to them a strife and a labor with much trouble; and that accordingly which is to come, a crown with great glory.'
For this world is to them a strife and a labor with much trouble; and that accordingly which is to come, a crown with great glory.'
And I answered and said: 'O LORD, my Lord, lo! the years of this time are few and evil, and who is able in his little time to acquire that which is measureless?'
And I answered and said: 'O LORD, my Lord, lo! the years of this time are few and evil, and who is able in his little time to acquire that which is measureless?'
And the Lord answered and said unto me: 'With the Most High account is not taken of time nor of a few years.
Now regarding everything that is, it is I that judge, but do not you take counsel in your soul regarding these things, nor afflict thyself because of those which have been.
Now regarding everything that is, it is I that judge, but do not you take counsel in your soul regarding these things, nor afflict thyself because of those which have been.
For now it is the consummation of time that should be considered, whether of business, or of prosperity, or of shame and not the beginning thereof.
And again, if a man is shamefully entreated in his beginnings, and at his end is prospered, he remembers not again his evil entreatment.
And again, if a man is shamefully entreated in his beginnings, and at his end is prospered, he remembers not again his evil entreatment.
For of what profit is strength that turns to sickness, Or fullness of food that turns to famine, Or beauty that turns to ugliness.
For the nature of man is always changeable.
How long will that which is corruptible remain, and how long will the time of mortals be prospered, and until what time will those who transgress in the world be polluted with much wickedness?
Command therefore in mercy and accomplish all that you saidst you wouldst bring, that Your might may be made known to those who think that Your long-suffering is weakness.
Or he who promises to give a present to another, but does not fulfill it, is it not robbery?
Before therefore the number aforesaid is fulfilled, the creature will not live again [for My spirit is the creator of life], and Sheol will receive the dead.
Before therefore the number aforesaid is fulfilled, the creature will not live again [for My spirit is the creator of life], and Sheol will receive the dead.
And again it is given to you to hear what things are to come after these times.
For truly My redemption has drawn nigh, and is not far distant as aforetime.
'For behold! the days come and the books shall be opened in which are written the sins of all those who have sinned, and again also the treasuries in which the righteousness of all those who have been righteous in creation is gathered.
And I answered and said: 'Will that tribulation which is to be continue a long time, and will that necessity embrace many years?'
And He answered and said unto me: 'Into twelve parts is that time divided, and each one of them is reserved for that which is appointed for it.
And He answered and said unto me: 'Into twelve parts is that time divided, and each one of them is reserved for that which is appointed for it.
And He answered and said unto me: 'Into twelve parts is that time divided, and each one of them is reserved for that which is appointed for it.
For some shall leave out some of their own, and receive (in its stead) from others, and some complete their own and that of others, so that those may not understand who are upon the earth in those days that this is the consummation of the times.
And I answered and said: 'It is good for a man to come and behold, but it is better that he should not come lest he fall.
And I answered and said: 'It is good for a man to come and behold, but it is better that he should not come lest he fall.
Will he who is incorruptible despise those things which are corruptible, and whatever befalls in the case of those things which are corruptible, so that he might look only to those things which are not corruptible?]
Is it in one place or in one of the parts of the earth that those things are come to pass, or will the whole earth experience (them) ?'
And it shall come to pass when all is accomplished that was to come to pass in those parts, that the Messiah shall then begin to be revealed.
And it shall come to pass after these things, when the time of the advent of the Messiah is fulfilled, that He shall return in glory.