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Narrative of Zosimus — source section XIII
XIII. We know also the time of our end, for we have no torment nor disease nor pain in our bodies, nor exhaustion nor weakness, but peace and great patience and love. For our soul is not troubled by the angels to go forth, for the angels rejoice when they receive our souls, and the souls also rejoice with the angels when they behold them; as a bride receives the bridegroom, so our soul receives the announcement of the holy angels, saying nothing more than only this, The Lord calls thee. Then the soul quits the body and goes to the angels, and the angels seeing the soul coming forth spotless rejoice, and spreading out their robes receive it. Then the angels call it blessed, saying, Blessed art then, O soul, because the will of the Lord is fulfilled in thee.
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History of the Rechabites — Craigie, Narrative of Zosimus
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Recorded completeness: Complete supplied historical English Greek-recension Narrative of Zosimus, with the Rechabite history and surrounding narrative, all source sectionsI–XXII through finalAmen. Includes the unnumbered continuation afterXXI and the original textual note on the corrupt nameCryseos. This is the supplied Greek-recension historical witness, not every Syriac/Ethiopic/Slavonic recension or a claim of original Greek Unicode text. Printed page-number links and modern footnote link identifiers are removed only as hosting markup; original narrative and source note are preserved.. Available reading sections are listed below.
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