XXIX.
Of such kind, in the time of that hater of all
good, will be the seal, the tenor of which will be this: I deny
the Maker of heaven and earth, I deny the baptism, I deny my (former)
service, and attach myself to thee, and I believe in thee. For
this is what the prophets Enoch and Elias will preach: Believe
not the enemy who is to come and be seen; for he is an
adversary1964
| 1964
ἀντίδικος.
In B, πλάνος = deceiver. |
and corrupter
and son of
perdition, and
deceives you;
1965
| 1965 B
reads τόν
κόσμον, the world. |
and for this reason he will
kill you, and
smite them with the
sword. Behold the
deceit of the
enemy, know
the machinations of the beguiler, how he
seeks to darken the
mind of
men utterly. For he will show forth his
demons brilliant like
angels, and he will bring in
hosts of the incorporeal without
number. And in the presence of all he exhibits himself as taken
up into
heaven with
trumpets and sounds, and the mighty shouting of
those who hail him with indescribable
hymns; the heir of
darkness
himself shining like
light, and at one time soaring to the heavens, and
at another descending to the
earth with great
glory, and again charging
the
demons, like
angels, to
execute his behests with much
fear and
trembling. Then will he send the cohorts of the
demons among
mountains and
caves and
dens of the
earth, to track out those who have
been concealed from his
eyes, and to bring them forward to
worship
him. And those who yield to him he will seal with his seal; but
those who refuse to submit to him he will consume with incomparable
pains and bitterest torments and machinations, such as never have been,
nor have reached the ear of man, nor have been seen by the eye of
mortals.
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