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A CHRISTIAN ROMANCE. 549<br />

"shall stand up, each in his own place, and they The twrd<br />

"all shall be rewarded according to their works; trumpet,<br />

"every man shall reap according as he hath sown,<br />

"and every man shall receive according to what<br />

"is due to him. And the righteous shall stand<br />

"up on the right hand [of God] and sinners on<br />

"the left, and the Devil and his fiends and devils<br />

"shall be given over to judgment in the abyss of<br />

"punishment and in the depths of Sheol, together<br />

"with all the sinners who have walked in the will<br />

"of the Devil the proud one, the seducer. Then<br />

"by the command of God Almighty the gates of<br />

"Sheol and the mouth of Gehenna shall be opened<br />

"wide, and sinners and fiends and devils, together<br />

"with the Devil their father, shall enter therein,<br />

"and Sheol shall be sealed up, and there shall they<br />

"suffer torment for ever and ever. And sinners<br />

"shall not die a second time, but they shall be<br />

"punished with mighty torture for which there<br />

"shall be no respite, and all those sinners who, The doom of<br />

"like thyself have not believed in the resurrection ^'""^'^^'<br />

"of the dead, and those who have not kept the<br />

"commandments of God Almighty, shall be destroyed<br />

"from the inheritance of the rio^hteous."<br />

CHAPTER XXXII.<br />

Then Komsat, <strong>Alexander</strong>'s disciple, answered and Koms^t asks<br />

said unto him, "What, now, is this 'inheritance ofinLmltion^<br />

"the righteous' of which thou speakest? I have never<br />

"heard of such a thing as this either from my<br />

"father or from the wise, and no man who hath

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