1
The answer tells Kepha that he is permitted to know a hidden matter but must not announce it carelessly to those who would use mercy as permission for further wrongdoing.
2
The continuation then speaks obscurely of life, glory, and the imperishable Kingdom being granted more widely than the earlier punishment scenes seem to allow.
3
It connects this mercy with the prayers of the righteous.
4
The passage is intentionally veiled in the Ethiopic transmission and should not be flattened into a simple dogmatic statement.