Chapter 3
(19).
And when the first created, father Adam, had heard
this, that Jesus was baptized in Jordan, he cried out to his son
Seth: Tell thy sons, the patriarchs and the prophets, all that
thou heardest from Michael the archangel when I sent thee to the gates
of paradise to implore God that he might send thee His angel to give
thee oil from the tree of mercy, with which to anoint my body when I
was sick. Then Seth, coming near to the holy patriarchs and
prophets, said: When I, Seth, was praying to the Lord at the
gates of paradise, behold Michael, the angel of the Lord, appeared to
me, saying, I have been sent to thee by the Lord. I am set over
the human race.1977
And to
thee,
Seth, I say, do not labour with
tears in prayers and
supplications on account of the
oil of the
tree of
mercy to
anoint thy
father Adam for the
pain of his body, because in no
wise shalt thou
receive of it, except in the last days and times, except when five
thousand and five
hundred years have been fulfilled: then will
come upon the
earth the most
beloved Son of
God, to raise up again the
body of
Adam, and the bodies of the dead; and He, when He comes, will
be
baptized in
Jordan. And when he shall have come out of the
water of
Jordan, then with the
oil of His
mercy shall He
anoint all
that believe on Him; and that
oil of
mercy shall be for the generation
of those who shall be
born out of
water and the
Holy Spirit into
life
eternal. Then, descending upon
earth,
Christ Jesus, the most
beloved Son of
God, will lead our
father Adam into
paradise to the tree
of mercy.
And when they heard all these things from Seth, all the
patriarchs and prophets exulted with great exultation.
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