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I swear to you, that in heaven the mal’akhiym remember you for good before the glory of the Great One: and your names are written before the glory of the Great One. 2. Be hopeful; for aforetime you were put to shame through ill and affliction; but now you shall shine as the lights of heaven, you shall shine and you shall be seen, and the portals of heaven shall be opened to you. 3. And in your cry, cry for judgement, and it shall appear to you; for all your tribulation shall be visited on the rulers, and on all who helped those who plundered you. 4. Be hopeful, and cast not away your hope; for you shall have great joy as the mal’akhiym of heaven. 5. What shall you be obliged to do? You shall not have to hide on the day of the great judgement and you shall not be found as sinners, and the eternal judgement shall be far from you for all the generations of the world. 6. And now fear not, you righteous, when you see the sinners growing strong and prospering in their ways: be not companions with them, but keep afar from their violence; for you shall become companions of the hosts of heaven. 7. And, although you sinners say: “All our sins shall not be searched out and written down,” nevertheless they shall write down all your sins every day. 8. And now I show to you that light and darkness, day and night, see all your sins. 9. Be not irreverent in your hearts, and lie not and alter not the words of uprightness, nor charge with lying the words of the Great Set-Apart One, nor take account of your idols; for all your lying and all your godlessness issue not in righteousness, but in great sin. 10. And now I know this mystery, that sinners will alter and pervert the words of righteousness in many ways, and will speak wicked words, and lie, and practise great deceits, and write books concerning their words. 11. But when they write down truthfully all my words in their languages, and do not change or diminish aught from my words, but write them all down truthfully - all that I first testified concerning them.
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Then, I know another mystery, that books shall be given to the righteous and the wise to become a cause of joy and uprightness and much wisdom. 13. And to them shall the books be given, and they shall believe in them and rejoice over them, and then shall all the righteous who have learnt therefrom all the paths of uprightness be recompensed.’