1
The guide brings Tzefanyah toward bronze gates and a place whose surviving description is badly damaged.
2
Beyond the gates he perceives the force of punishment and the light of fire from below.
3
A great square or open place stands before him, but the order of the surviving Coptic leaves is uncertain.
4
The guide's appearance changes as the seer moves toward the deeper region.
5
Tzefanyah understands that he is approaching the realm where accusations against souls are brought to completion. Provenance note. Akhmimic witness; the bronze-gate sequence is particularly obscure and must remain partially unresolved.