Testament of Isaac

Testament of Isaac, Gaselee1927 Bohairic translation, printedpage 58

58 THE TESTAMENT OF ISAAC the earth. For (yap) if God hath given power (ifovaia) to us over every thing that is upon the earth, how much more (1roacp µa.Mov) to him who shall be established in his faith in the words of God and of His saints, not in unbelief (-d1run-os-), but (d».a) in a heart made straight in the words of God and of all His saints : and he shall be made an inheritor (K.\77povoµos-) with the saints in the kingdom of God. But God is compassionate and merciful, who hath accepted robbers and publicans (n->.wV7]s-) in the generations (yEvrn) that are gone by, because of their innocence (aKEpaws-) and their faith that was righteous and (f. 165a) surely founded in God : and likewise shall He be with all the generations {yt:vea) that are to come. Now it came to pass that when the days of our father the patriarch (1ra-rpiapX71s-) Isaac were come nigh that he should come forth from the body (awµa), God the merciful sent unto him the great holy archangel (apxayyt:Aos-) Michael, the same that He had sent unto Abraham his father. At the hour of dawn on the twenty-second day of Mesore he said unto him: Hail (xmpt:), my son, the chosen of God, and His beloved son: now as for the God-loving and righteous (S,Kaios-) old man, our father Isaac, it was his custom (avV7J0na) daily to speak with the holy angels. He cast down his face, he saw him, that he was in the likeness of his father Abraham; he opened his mouth, he lifted up his voice, he cried out in great joy and exultation: I am looking upon thy face even as one that hath looked upon God. The angel (ayyE.\os-) said : Take thought, my