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Sefer Chazon Ezra — Chapter 6 - The Last Signs and the Antichrist

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Ezra praises the One before him as righteous, almighty, and abundant in compassion; the Latin is difficult and may preserve the end of a lost connective sentence.

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The voice turns toward those seized by their evil works at the last day.

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Blood covers or darkens the sun; darkness comes; stars fall toward the earth in burning signs. The final measurement in the Latin is obscure.

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Ezra asks how the sky itself has sinned. The Master answers that the sky has continually looked upon the evil of Adam.

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Shortly before the end, the Antichrist is released amid sorrow and temptation and claims to proclaim in the divine Name.

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A Christian challenges him: if he is truly the Anointed One and Son of Elohim, let him move the mountain. He cannot complete the sign.

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Another challenge demands storm and rain, fish from a serpent, bread from stone, and water from sand; the false claimant cannot establish the demanded works.

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Those who place trust in the Antichrist are pictured as remaining hungry and thirsty, never satisfied.

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Ezra asks what bodily appearance the Antichrist will have so that he can warn the sons of Adam.

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The Master gives a grotesque physical description in the transmitted Latin: a high forehead, elongated or protruding head, hair over the brows, brilliant eyes, a hollow-like nose, thin upper lip, and a malformed or absent knee.

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A Christian challenges the Antichrist to bend the knee and pray if he is truly the Anointed One; he cannot bend down.

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At the day of judgment, one who had believed the Antichrist goes to Mount Sinai and begs the mountain and rock, in the precious Name, to fall upon him and hide him.

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The mountain, hearing the Name, melts or erupts over him yet remains as solid ground; the Latin description is difficult.

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