106. I answered: "How then do we find that Abraham first interceded for the people of Sodom; and Moses for our ancestors who sinned in the desert;
107. and Joshua, who came after him, for Israel, in the days of Achan;
108. and Samuel in the days of Saul; and David for the plague; and Solomon for those in the sanctuary;
109. and Elijah for those who received the rain, and for a dead person that he might live;
110. and Hezekiah for the people in the days of Sennacherib, and many for many people?
111. If, therefore, the just prayed for the wicked when corruption had increased and injustice had multiplied, why won’t it be the same then?"
112. He answered me: "The present world isn’t the end. Glory does not continuously remain in it, and so those who were able prayed for the weak.
113. But the Judgment Day will be the end of this time and the beginning of the future, endless time in which decay is no more,