Apocryphal New Testament — Historical English Collection

Apocryphal New Testament — Hone/Wake/Jones — Section 15

4 Is my holy mountain a ^Zion, a desolate wilderness? — ^ For ye shall be as a young bird when its nest is taken away. 5 And again the prophet saith, *I will go before thee, and will make plain the mountains, and will break the gates of brass, and will snap in sunder the bars of iron ; and will give thee dark, and hidden, and invisible treasures, that they may know that I am. the Lord God. 6 And again : He shall dwell ^ in the high den of the strong rock. And then, what follows in the same prophet ? His water is faithful ; ye shall see the king ^Jeremiah, ii. 12. ^Vid. Annot. Coteler. and Ed. Oxon. in loc. xvi- 1, 2. * Isaiah xlv. 2. 'Isaiah, xxxiii. 16, 17. 156 ' Isaiah, foretold under BARNABAS. the law. with glory, and your soul shall learn the fear of the Lord. 7 And again he saith in ano- ther prophet : He that does these things ; ^ shall be like a tree, planted by the currents of water, which shall give its fruit in its season. Its leaf also shall not wither, and whatsoever he doth it shall prosper. 8 As for the wicked it is not so with them ; but they are as the dust which the wind scatter- eth away from the face of the earth. 9 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, neither the sinners in the council of the righteous. For the Lord knoweth the way of the right- eous and the way of the ungod- ly shall perish. 10 Consider how he has joined both the cross and the water to- gether. 11 For thus he saith : Blessed are they who put their trust in the cross, descend into the water ; for they shall have their reward in due time ; then, saith he, will I give it them. 12 But as concerning the pre- sent time, he saith, their leaves shall not fall ; meaning thereby that every word that shall go out of your mouth, shall through faith and charity be to the con- version and hope of many. 13 In like manner doth an- other prophet speak. "^ And the land of Jacob was the praise of all the earth ; ^ magnifying there- by * the vessel of his spirit. 14 And what follows? — And there was a river running on the right hand, and beautiful trees