Testament of Isaac

Testament of Isaac, Gaselee1927 Bohairic translation, printedpage 69

APPENDIX 69 enmity with his neighbour, he must go into the hands of these tormentors (nµ,wpturtJs), until the end of a year of days for (Ka-ra) each hour, (f. r73b) if he have not repented (-µ,ETavoE,v) of his sins before he came forth from the body (awµ,a). He led me further unto a river of fire : I saw that it was in waves, and its waves were forty cubits high; and the noise of it was like a thunder of heaven. I saw a multitude of souls plunged in it nine cubits deep, and they who were in that river were crying out, weeping with a loud voice and great sighing; [the river] hath not afflicted the righteous (otKaws-), but (llia) it is the sinners whom it doth bt•rn, knowing them because of the great stink that surroundeth them. I saw the depth of the abyss, whose smoke (Kanvos) rose exceeding high; I saw a multitude of men that were cast down therein, crying out, weeping each one of them with his sighing. The angel (a.yyE.\os-) said unto me: Look down and see these others also. And (oE) when I had seen them he said unto me : These that are plunged down into the cold, these are they that have committed the iniquity (a.voµia) of Sodom, and so (Kai yap) they are tormented exceedingly. (f. 174a) Again I saw another depth, full of sleepless worms and snakes ; and there were men that were plunged down into it, crying out, weeping. Again I saw Abtelmoluchos,1 that is set in charge of the torments (KoAaais), and he was all fire, beating the tormentors 1 i.e. Temeluchus, the name of an angel who appears in Apocalypse of Peter and elsewhere: = Greek T1J/H>.oiixo~, "care-ta.king": See James, Apoc. N. T., p. 507 n.