VII.
Wherefore all shall walk after their own
will. And the children will lay hands on their parents. The
wife will give up her own husband to death, and the husband will bring
his own wife to judgment like a criminal. Masters will lord it
over their servants savagely,1898
| 1898
For εἰς
τοὺς δούλους
απάνθρωποι
αὐθεντήσονται,
Codex B reads, πρὸς
τοὺς δούλους
ἀπανθρωπίαν
κτησονται. |
and
servants will assume an
unruly
demeanour toward their masters. None will
reverence the grey
hairs of the elderly, and none will have pity upon the comeliness of
the youthful. The
temples of
God will be like
houses, and there
will be overturnings of the
churches everywhere. The Scriptures
will be
despised, and everywhere they will
sing the
songs of the
adversary.
1899
| 1899 For
ἐχθροῦ, Codex B reads,
διαβόλου, the
devil. |
Fornications, and adulteries, and perjuries will fill the
land;
sorceries, and incantations, and divinations will follow after these
with all force and
zeal. And, on the whole, from among those who
profess to be
Christians will rise up then false
prophets, false
apostles,
impostors,
mischief-makers,
evil-doers,
liars against each other,
adulterers,
fornicators, robbers, grasping, perjured, mendacious, hating each
other. The
shepherds will be like
wolves; the
priests will
embrace
falsehood; the monks
1900
| 1900 This does
not agree with the age of Hippolytus. |
will
lust after the things of the
world; the
rich will assume hardness
of
heart; the
rulers will not help the
poor; the powerful will cast off
all pity; the judges will remove justice from the just, and, blinded
with bribes, they will call in unrighteousness.
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