18 nativity. his 2 birth ; all his uncleanness standeth before his
eyes, and he seeth the cause of his horror, and
condemneth himself; he cannot look upon the
righteous for very shame ; all his works stand in
his mind, and (in the essences) cry, Woe ! to him
that did them, they accuse him ; the tears of those
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he hath afflicted and oppressed are like a fiery
stinging serpent ; he desireth l rest or ease, but 1 abstinence.
there is no eomfort, despair riseth up in him, for
hell terrifieth him.
13. Also the devils tremble at the kindling of
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the wrath, whose faces appear before the eyes of
the ungodly ; for they see the angelical world
before them, and the hellish fire in them ; and
they see how every life burneth, and every one in
its own source, in its own fire. The angelical
world burneth in triumph, in joy, in the light of
the 2 glory, and it shineth as the clear sun, which a clarity,
neither devil, nor any of the wicked dare look brightness.
upon, and there is praise [and Hallelujahs] that the
driver is overcome.
214. And there then the judgment is set, and all
men (both the living and the dead) must stand
there, every one in his own body. And the
angelical choir of the holy men (who have been
killed for the witness of Jesus) is set ; there stand
the holy Patriarchs of the tribes of Israel, and the
holy Prophets, with their doctrine ; and all that
they have taught is made manifest and revealed,
and standeth before the eyes of the wicked ; they
must give an account of all their murderings of
the saints ; for they that have been murdered for
the truth's sake stand before the eyes of their
murderers, whose lives the murderers must give an
account for, and yet have no excuse to make, but
stand speechless ; all a man's slandering reproaches
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which he hath cast upon the righteous stand there
1 really. before him l in substance, and is a substance, about
which the law is there read to him.
15. Where is now thy authority, thy honour,
thy riches, thy pomp and bravery, thy power,
wherewith thou hast terrified the needy, and hast
made the right bow and bend to thy will ? Behold, it is all in substance, and standeth before
thee ; the oppressed read thy lesson to thee ; all
that was rightly spoken [by thee] in this world, is
there recalled again, and thou abidest (in thy
unrighteousness) a liar, and thou must be judged
by those that thou hast here judged in falsehood ;
32 are really all lying and deceit stand 2 manifest in the subdiscovered in 1 1 i i • •
the light. stance, all thy words stand in the tincture in the
substance of eternity before thee, and are thy
looking-glass ; they will be thy eternal gnawing
whelps, and the book of thy comfort and trust.
Therefore do but think what thou wilt do ; wilt
thou not then curse and judge thyself ?
16. On the contrary, the righteous stand there
in unspeakable great joy, and their joy riseth up
in the source [or well-spring] of the Holy Ghost ;
all their sorrow and heaviness (which they have
had here) standeth before them in substance, and
it appeareth how they have suffered wrongfully ;
their comfort springeth up in the body of Jesus
Christ, who hath redeemed them out of so great
misery ; all their sins are washed, and appear as
white as snow ; and there then they return thanks
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to their bridegroom, who hath redeemed them out
of such necessity and misery, wherein they lay
captive here, and there is mere hearty joy that the
1 driver is destroyed ; all their good works, their * the evil,
teaching and well-doing, appear before them; all wickedness,
the words of their teaching and reproving (where- °r the deviU
with they have shewn the ungodly the right way)
stand in the figure.
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.