110. and Hezekiah for the people in the days of Sennacherib: and many for many?
111. If therefore now, when corruption is grown up, and unrighteousness increased, the righteous have prayed for the ungodly, wherefore shall it not be so then also?
112. He answered me, and said, This present world is not the end; the full glory remains not therein: therefore have they who were able prayed for the weak.
113. But the day of judgement shall be the end of this time, and the beginning of the immortality for to come, wherein corruption is passed away,
114. intemperance is at an end, infidelity is cut off, but righteousness is grown, and truth is sprung up.
115. Then shall no man be able to have mercy on him that is cast in judgement, nor to thrust down him that has gotten the victory.
116. I answered then and said, this is my first and last saying, that it had been better that the earth had not given you Adam: or else, when it had given him, to have restrained him from sinning.
117. For what profit is it for all that are in this present time to live in heaviness, and after death to look for punishment?
118. O you Adam, what have you done? For though it was you that sinned, the evil is not fallen on you alone, but upon all of us that come of you.
119. For what profit is it to us, if there be promised us an immortal time, whereas we have done the works that bring death?
120. And that there is promised us an everlasting hope, whereas ourselves most miserably are become vain?
121. And that there are reserved habitations of health and safety, whereas we have lived wickedly?
122. And that the glory of the Most High shall defend them which have led a pure life, whereas we have walked in the most wicked ways of all?
123. And that there shall be showed a paradise, whose fruit endures without decay, wherein is abundance and healing, but we shall not enter into it,
124. for we have walked in unpleasant places?