2 Baruch

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II BARUCH 88. 12—87. 1 Nor place of repentance for the soul, Nor supplication for offences, Nor intercession of the fathers, Nor prayer of the prophets, Nor help of the righteous. 13 There there is the sentence of corruption, The way of fire, And the path which bringeth to Gehenna. 14. On this account there is one law by one, One age and an end for all who are in it. 15 Then He will preserve those whom He can forgive, And at the same time destroy those who are polluted with sins. ] 86 1,2 When therefore ye receive this my epistle, read it in your congregations with care. And meditate 3 thereon, above all on the days of your fasts. And bear me in mind by means of this epistle, as I also bear you in mind in it, and always. Fare ye well. LXXXVII. Zhe Dispatch of the Letter to the Nine and a Half Tribes. 871 And it came to pass when I had ended all the words of this epistle, and had written it sedulously to its close, that I folded it, and sealed it carefully, and bound it to the neck of the eagle, and dis- missed and sent it. HERE ENDS THE BOOK OF BARUCH THE SON OF NERIAH. nor place of repentance. 4 Ezra ix.12. This is the universal teaching in the Books of Enoch and 4 Ezra. intercession of the fathers. Cf. 4 Ezra vii. 102-15; 2 Enoch liii. 1. 14. one law by one. Moses is meant; in the Ass. Mos. iii. 12, he is called the mediator of the law. Thus this verse is directed against Christians. It seems out of place. LXXXVI. 3. Fare ye well(abdefghiWP). >a LXXXVII. This chapter is found only in c, but it belongs to the book. Cf. Ixxvii. 17, 20-6. bound it to the neck of the eagle. 4 Baruch vii. 8. 526