Didascalia Apostolorum

Historical source scan page 117

DIDASCALIA. 89 cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live ; I will put sinews 6 upon you, and build flesh upon you, and clothe you with skin, and I will give breath into you, and ye shall live, and ye shall know that I am the Lord. So I prophesied as He had said to me, and as I 7 prophesied there was a voice, and a shaking, and the bones came to- gether, bone to bone; and I saw that sinews and flesh came up upon 8 them, and skin was drawn over them from above, but there was no breath in them. And the Lord said unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, 9 and say, Thus saith the Lord God, Come, O wind, from the four quarters, and enter into these dead men, and they shall live. So I pro- 10 phesied as He commanded me, and the wind came into them, and they lived; and they stood up upon their feet, in a great army. And n the Lord said unto me, Son of man, those bones are they of the house of Israel, who say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is destroyed, and we are not. Thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I open your graves, 12 and I will bring you from thence, O my people, and I will lead you into the land of Israel ; and ye shall know that I am the Lord when is I open your graves, to bring out My people from the tombs. And I will 1* put My Spirit into you, and ye shall live, and I shall cause you to dwell in your land, and ye shall know that I am the Lord who hath spoken and done, and all the dwellers on earth shall be at peace, saith the Lord." Again He hath said by means of Isaiah, " All they that sleep and IB. xxvi. 19 the dead shall arise, and all that are in the graves shall awake, for thy dew is unto them the dew of healing, but the land of the wicked shall be destroyed.") And again he hath spoken by means of Isaiah Jthe prophet1 about the Resurrection and eternal life and about the glory of the righteous, and also about the shame and destruction of sinners, (S. + about their conduct, and their fall, about their dissolution, their ruin, and their con- demnation, for when He said that the land of the wicked shall fall, he spoke of their body, because it is from the earth, and will be accounted with shame as of the earth ; because they did not worship God, they shall fall into fire and torment). And in the Twelve Prophets they said thus, " Behold, ye wicked, and see and understand wonders, and return Habakkuk to corruption, for I will work a work in your days (S. + which if a man declare it unto you ye will not believe.") These things and more than these are said against those who do not believe in the Resurrection, and 1 S. and all the other prophets D. M