On the Divine Revelations to the Patriarchs and the Prophets

On the Divine Revelations to the Patriarchs and the Prophets Second Memra Of the Second Sunday of the Season of Suboro On the Divine Revelations that Were to the Patriarchs and the Prophets A Homily Blessed is the one who teaches, guides, and calls to us, my brethren. The image of his revelations the Creator formed in the thought of man. And man began to form spiritual images. He placed life, he placed a treasury full of death, And they set up lives that do not die in their thoughts. In their thoughts he interpreted with them of fleshly ones, And taught them to converse in his mysteries. Spiritually he showed them the children of his will, That they might see through revelations the poor. Not revelations did he reveal to their poverty from the beginning, And he made them wise to understand the power of his greatness. The power of his greatness he revealed in the creation of the world of Adam, And taught them to say the children of the chariot of his creation. From the living one was the chariot of the son of the living one, And when it was mounted, a spiritual self breathed into him. In his self he interpreted upon the rib of the side of the man, And began to say that from the man is the woman the helpmeet of Eve. By the spirit of revelation he taught this teachable one, And it was not his own that he said the cause hidden from him. Hidden from him was the mystery of the salvation of his body and his self, And when he was questioned, he stood in lamentation to see his standing.

He looks with the eye of the spirit upon the likeness of the pure one, and praises and offers up his own thanksgiving and that of all. Behold the beginning of the revelation of the spirit of revelation, that the Lord began to reveal his love to the earth-dwellers, that he might teach them that the pure one loves the race of man. The love of his heart he showed to man through his revelations, and while he was hidden, he interpreted with him the secrets of his hiddenness. The power of his mind spoke with the hidden thought that was in him, and they began to speak spiritually in his silence. In two forms he spoke with them, in body and in spirit, according to their pure bodily and spiritual nature. To the heart of Abraham he appeared bodily, and as a man they looked upon him in the choice of his words. Bodily he rebuked Adam for his folly, and like a human voice he heard his ways within Paradise. In their language he spoke with Enoch in the meditation of his people, and taught Enoch to offer the sacrifices of love. The sacrifices of love he taught Enoch to offer to him, that through sacrifices he might teach Enoch that he knows all. Through sacrifices he revealed to Israel the hidden mystery of their knowledge, and rebuked Cain, whose hiddenness was not pure in his own self. With a clear voice he spoke with him who toiled for himself, that he does not accept a sacrifice that is not pure from stains.

He puts on his garment, turns his evil face to cover up, and instead of pain and sorrow, the soul gives birth to murder. The murderer kills and conceals the blood of his brother, sealed, and a voice calls out bodily, "Where is Abel?" Bodily, he follows the bodily blood, and shows that he has a sacrifice to offer to the living. Two rewards were heard in the blood that spoke: the demons were terrified and the angels rejoiced. With this, the voice of the spirit gave a voice to the voiceless, to make known that it has a son for the renewal of humanity. For the renewal of humanity, the good one is wise in all generations, and their teachings become revelations in all forms. For their sake, he sets the darkness and guards it in life, so that from them the one who is in Paradise may be lightened. Here, in the air, he guards the spirit over the spirit, and it becomes a sign that their loss is not in a single human. The hope of the renewal of humanity was also shown to Lamech, and he revealed and showed it in the sign that would be in the one born from him. By the spirit, the harsh decree of the water of baptism was annulled, and the curses of Paradise were also loosened. With a clear voice, the spirit made the voice of their destruction heard, and they diminished and ceased upon that voice that the spirit proclaimed. The spirit alone heard the voice and its meaning, and believed and affirmed that the children of his spirit were being completed.

from the limbs of the righteous man, the son of a righteous man, and he made a house of concealment, which was a remnant of the world. A small remnant remained from the deaf and from the mute, and he passed the sign to the good and peaceful land. With a bodily voice he made heard to the soul concerning these things, how they enter and how they depart from the tomb. With that voice he interpreted with him after the sacrifice, and taught him the order of how to eat the flesh of animals. With a bodily voice that one also blessed the child from him, and established the two of them under the beautiful service of Seth. From Seth it is shown that our hope is for the coming of the man, and because of this he turned his requests to the dwelling of his people. From him it was destined that Abram, son of Terah, would come, and through him the confused course of the ten generations would be opened. With this sign, a revelation from within Babylon would show that he would be the head of the election of the people and the kingdom of the nations. In a spirit he examined him: "Go out from the land of your birth, and receive and take that daughter of the voice who is with him." With voice and silence he again instructed the good servant, that when he became wise, he would direct his requests in the service of his Lord. With that kingdom he established for his seed, and he was eager to learn the beautiful thing that would be. "When will it be and how will it be?" Abram asked, and the Lord answered him with a clear voice and spoke with him.

Take the animals and make sacrifices to Shem the Honorable, and I will teach you how your kingdom will be against you. The three animals are a type of the three generations, that your seed will be a house of remembrance and will be freed. Take three for yourself to slay and to offer according to the law, so that thus the law of the sacrifices will follow. Divide the flesh and place a limb opposite its companion, and form a type of their worship while one is being washed opposite. Through the channels and through the dry land that is not divided, tell of their dwelling within the desert and within the flood. With the bird that descends upon the limbs that you divide, form types that will humble the rebellious peoples. With that which is nullified for you and you preserve your sacrifices from flight, remember my nullification, how it was nullified over your children. When the sun sets and the remainder of your sacrifices is received, stand in the distance of the time of your kingdom against you. When the mountain is finished and your sacrifices are completed easily, see that your good will is pleasing to me more than sacrifices. These things Abraham the Chosen One learned in a clear voice, and he believed and confirmed the time of the sacrifice that is wondrous in him. Here at night was the interpretation of those who were hidden, not in a dream nor in a spiritual vision.

A revelation of a test in which there is a vision for the dense voice, how it separates the body of a man from his companion. Corporeally it would show him the visions of his revelations, in the vapor that passes through the dense nature to be investigated. By this seal he would close his hunt and his people, and when there is no body, the vision of the body is seen. The righteous one saw three men at the door of his tent, and he received them as a man according to the form. That which is future was revealed to the priest in this that he performed, that the future son of his seed would dwell in his son sacrificially. The son of Abraham was destined to be a yoke for his sacrifice, and before he set out on the path of his sacrifice, the just one sacrificed. His sacrifice examined the entrance to the house of his servant, so that when he sacrificed, the truth would not be hindered from the mystery. His body would bring his corporeality to her, and show her in mystery until she becomes corporeal. By the name of his greatness he would call him in sacrifice, and he bent his sacrifice and called himself by the name of a man. As with a man, Abraham also looked upon him, and he was revealed to honor and comfort the righteous. The vision of the rocks was turned by the Lord and his servants, and they were fearful and beloved in the eyes of the priest.

In great love he received Enoch like the angels, and Enoch rested in food and drink corporeally. A vision of food would show him the corporeal, and when they ate they did not truly eat. For the love of Abraham he extended his love in the food of the vision, not that they ate, but he taught them the mercy of his love. The mercy of his love shows the good in those who act, concerning the side of his servant corporeally while not being corporeal. Two spirits he embodies with him in that entry, not that he was embodied, but that he preserved the form of the vision. For it was a vision that was seen corporeally, and that wonder, when there is no body, forms a body. The great wonder the Creator performed for Abraham, that he might show him his divinity corporeally while not showing it. He shows a body when there is no body for his divinity, and he ate and drank while his nature did not receive food. His nature has no natural properties that belong to natures, for even his nature is a remembrance for him of the name of natures. From the names we learn the name of natures, in that what is made is accustomed to be affected by something that is like it. In this custom his nature is bound, the Lord of natures, concerning man, in the form of man, in the name of the one who asked.

d the vision to Abraham, that which was in the house of Abraham, and it was not a true corporeal vision as it is written. Moses wrote in it that entry as he was commanded, and placed it in his book as a foundation for the inquiry of truth. For the inquiry of truth, the Lord did everything he did in his deeds, and it is better than all this that he did with Abraham. Through the seed of Abraham, he was destined to accomplish the salvation of man, and his honor for the church in the mystery of the salvation that suffers from him. Do not think, then, a foolish thought about the Creator, as the heretics think with their foolish hearts. The foolish thought that they think about such things, and because of this Enoch entered into the midst of words. Their reasons I have pursued in the path of the interpretation of words, so that a man may know the hidden benefit of their thoughts. Do not be ignorant of how much David has woven the path of their words, and how much he has labored to obscure the truths. In their obscurity, the thoughts of the churches have become dark, and they have not ceased and do not cease from the accusation of their evil. The name of their evil has been repeated in many sacrifices, not to boast but to cover their unrighteousness. Unrighteously they always walk in the path of the scriptures, and they lead the discipline of man astray with their interpretations.

In my investigations I also, in every age, and they did not give me to walk in silence on the path of words. On the path of divine visions I desired to walk, to know and to make known what the cause of their changes is. Their changes I saw are founded in all their forms, and the word of truth is mingled in body and spirit. In body and spirit also Isaac heard the speech of the spirit, which reminded him of that kingdom which was with his father. In the kingdom of his father the wise son was sought, and he was eager to deliver to his desires the kingdom of life. Like a good athlete he prepared himself for the blessings, and desired that the divine sign be given and completed. For Esau the firstborn he desired to bless, full of blessings, but that command which rules over all did not permit him. Like a wrestler he cast a stone into the midst of his words, and sought that it be given and stand and remain in the midst of divisions. Or at the wonder that was wrought concerning the righteous one, he desired that it be given, but he could not complete it, for it was disobedient to him. And when the Creator did not wish to act by the will of his servant, he gave the kingdom of the house of Abraham to one who was worthy of it. Here, in love, their disobedience to the upright one to perform these things, and the stone was good that was cast between the two brothers.

Jacob saw that desire to see everything, and it preceded and chose him before he came out from within the womb. A chosen vessel of God, who chooses all, and a fitting one to be the keeper of the treasury of the keys of life. The keys of life were hidden from Jacob in the movements of his soul, and he set out on the path and saw a vision at the beginning of his path. He saw a ladder standing on the earth, its head in the height, and God above the height of its length. He saw angels ascending and descending swiftly, and they were fulfilling the desire of the Lord who sent them to go. This is the dream that Jacob saw, not with the eyes, and while he was sleeping he saw a vision that cannot be seen. It was not with the eyes that he saw the ladder, nor the spirits, nor could he see the Lord as a human being. For it was a vision that showed him the likeness of actions and revealed to him its descent and its ascent. It was teaching him the ascent and descent of the spirits and instructing him not to be wearied by the labor of his path. And if the spirits are hidden, they are many in their actions, how much more should he not be terrified before the terrors? The vision he saw taught him the course of the spirit, and that if he endures, he is destined to receive the reward for his labors.

In faith, hope, and love he confirmed it, and because of this he called it the place of the house of God. The house of God named the place of the vision that he saw, and he set up a pillar of stones to fill it with the tithes. He saw again a vision that resembled this at the end of his labors, which taught him what it had taught him at the beginning of his path. A fearful flight he fled when he went out from the house of Laban, and it resembled the descent to the house of Harran. In his flight he saw the encampment of the angels, who reminded him of that vision that he saw at Bethel. He saw the terrible sight of the ranks of those who were ministering, and he approached and wrestled with the head of them as with a man. A strong sinew he wrestled with the spiritual one, and he strove to take from him the power of blessings. "Bless me," Jacob said to the spiritual one, and he asked him, "What is your name?" and Jacob said, "From now on you shall not be called Jacob, but your name shall be Israel, for he saw God." Not that the son of Isaac saw God corporeally, but a vision that was spoken of in the name of God. With his senses Jacob saw this painful vision, and as with a man he wrestled with the spiritual one with his hands. That spiritual one taught him to take the sinew, so that when it failed him he would know that he was able to fail his brother.

This is the reason for the terror that occurred here, because it was reminding of that vision which he received in the mystery. One is the stone of that place and of that altar of sacrifice; there the dream is fulfilled, and here the vision of the heights. In the heights he saw that encampment of the heavens, and he called the place by the name of the action of the vision itself. Phanuel called the place of the vision that was shown to him, concerning that which he saw, the spiritual face to face. It was the spirit that he saw, and he was united corporeally, and not the corporeal of the created thing, from which nothing is lacking. That essence is not visible to the seers, nor can the seers gaze upon its hiddenness. He taught the priests the form of the vision, the name of his essence, that he might cast the mystery into the heart of the priests who were priests. Jacob was a priest, and his sons were beloved of his ways, and he set for him a beautiful name, the seer of divinity. In the eye of the spirit he showed him a vision without incarnation, and taught him the order of how to fashion its likeness before the seers. A great power was the vision that was shown to him, and he gave it to his sons as an inheritance from God. In spirit the priest blessed his sons as he was commanded, and he revealed and examined the completion of their actions. Spiritually Joseph also saw in the distances, and he interpreted the vision of the rocks and the watchers.

The greatness of his rank and the humiliation of his brothers became in his dreams, that he was exalted and his brothers were lowered to the rank of servants. In every form the Lord taught his servants that they are witnesses of the vanity of their worship of the man. One of the witnesses of his vanity set Job, and better than any man he bore the name of his witness. A witness was chosen, the son of Esau, the sacrificer of his rank, and he showed that he could prevail among the wicked who were priests. Job was a priest and his faith was true, and his name was beautifully set as a good name in the book of priests. For the priests, the hidden will was honored in all generations, and their priesthood became in the form of an image before the seers. The image of his priesthood became in Moses, a priest of the will, and he set him to be a skilled scribe of his mysteries. Better than any man he revealed to him the mysteries of his secrets, and raised his rank above the ranks of the orders. The great seer of his mysteries made him on earth, and taught him to form non-manifest things as manifest things. The vision of the mountain became for him on the mountain before his eyes, and from it the myrrh would bring to his hunt the sound of his name. In the burning bush he saw the vision that was shown to him, in the bush that burns and has no fruits of life. In the thing that pleases, the shepherd shows his power, that he may teach man that from nothing she created the creation.

The superiority of something over nothing, how much is it? It is a sign that is true, the standing of one who stands from a shadow. By a sign, the sign showed to Moses the vision of the mountain. A fire and a sign, and a sign in the fire, and not extinguished. Vision and voice were separated from within the mountain, and corporeally it was revealed in vision and voice. Moses called the voice to the Israelite, and showed him that he knows the staff and the son of the staff, and showed him his lineage. "Alas, alas, my Lord of the house of your fathers," he said to him, and he was troubled to save the seed of Abraham from servitude. These were perceptible in the senses, and in body and spirit they were visible to be seen. By a tangible sign, the power of the name of his lordship taught him, and he changed the staff and made it a true serpent. By this staff he smote the Egyptians with ten plagues, and with it he divided the sea and the people crossed as on dry land. It was not the staff that stood, the power of the name of his lordship, but divine power wrought these things through it. By this power the bitter waters became sweet, and at his command he brought up locusts and brought down the dew. By it he struck the rock and brought forth water from the cliff, and filled the people with the abundance of the well and quenched their thirst. The greatness of his power he showed to all by these things he wrought, and he interpreted them by the hands of the man, the staff and the serpent.

The man, a sign, showed from the whole nature of mortals, and a revelation in his hand, the power of his essence and the sign of all. The Lord of the two placed his sign in the earth, the nature of mortals, and gave in it the power to come in order, the sign of the worlds. The sign of the worlds showed him on the mountain spiritually, how the creation was established in the beginning from nothing. The mercy of these things cast down his companion who was Israel, and began the tablets that would show the glory of your divinity. As if without fire, Moses thought he saw him, and did not know that that hiddenness is invisible. As to a lover, he showed him instead of his hiddenness, and made a demonstration of the greatness of the glory of his face. The vision of his glory made the sign glorious beyond all, and the eyes were not sufficient for the corporeal gazers upon him. Not God did the mortal see corporeally, for this is difficult and incomprehensible to speakers. His glory showed the power that hides from all creatures, so that it might be known that his divinity is incomprehensible. An angel it was that served in the place of the Lord, and it showed the vision of the fire to the burning bush. Its own were all the things that were on the mountain of Sinai, and there is no voice that Moses heard that was not its sound. Paul witnesses that an angel it was that gave the law, not that it gave, but that through its hands it was spoken.

To him, the angel, the divine sign was moved, and he was interpreting the laws of the ordinances in the hands of Moses. As a mediator, Moses was made between him and the people, and he was explaining and speaking spiritually. As if in an organ, the spirit struck within him, in his mouth, and he was speaking glorious sounds in the hands of the people. O that power, no audible sound could be heard, which was interpreting the ordinances of his will through the work of his hands. Three times he performed his ministry, toward the spirits and toward the dweller of the earth and the sons of his people. From one to another he was conveying the language of his people, in the manner of a king who commands one and another and another. He, like a king, was moving among the spirits, and the runners were conveying his words to the earth-dwellers. The place of his feet would appear on the mountain like a bodily form, and when there was no body, bodily images would be formed. A new rock gave to the organ that it might appear in his name, which was written on the tablets of the ark here and there. Alpha, beta, the first letters were written in them, and they were prior to all the letters in all the books. The great of the great made Moses between the earth-dwellers, and he meditated the beginning of the meditation of his words in the writings.

That command which created the creatures from nothing, he wrote the law not with hands but with a sign. Not with material hands did the Creator stand, as it is written that the hand of the Lord wrote the law. In the form of hands, the hand is able to be moved in all forms, so that even man performs his actions with his hands. In this form, he acted toward Moses and Joshua son of Nun, hand in hand toward the righteous of all generations. One angel performed the office of messenger for his service, that one whose name is called Michael and Azazel. Concerning him, Moses said to him on the mountain when he saw him, "Behold, an angel goes before you and leads you." By his name, he called him the minister of his divinity, and he commanded Moses to fear him as he fears the Lord. He showed himself to Joshua son of Nun as a vision of a man who was girded with weapons of war, visible. It was not a man who was visible, as it is said, but the likeness of a man when there is no man. The commander of the armies said to him, "I have come now to teach you the order of my governance." I am the one who performed all that was done by the hand of Moses, and I am the one who will perform those things that are to be done by your hands. This is the man who called himself by the name of a man, he who performed all the wars of the righteous ones.

He took the land of Palestine and gave it to Israel, and completed and finished that kingdom which was with Abraham. He showed to Gideon the sign of the fleece and the dew, that he might be able to overcome the Midianites without weapons. Without weapons he taught Gideon to do battle, that when he was victorious he would not boast in the instruments of war. He also struck Deborah who called Barak, that he might go forth and humble the pride of Sisera, the mighty man of the army. He also taught Jael the arts of the tent-peg, that with the skill of love she might ensnare the enemy who humbles the people. With the hands of women he humbled the pride of the kings of Hazor, that he might proclaim the power of the one who sent him, the strength of the Almighty. He also revealed to the wife of Manoah the cause of the sun, how she would hide from the Philistines by the sign of his hair. On the top of his limbs he showed her the sign of his manhood, that she might know that it was not human, that power of his greatness. He again embodied the cloud and made it a body, and brought down black rain as the priest Samuel requested. With the voice of thunder he covered the people who asked for an angel, that he might teach them that it was not fitting that they had completed their desire. The Creator did all that he did by means of the spirit, and not the spirit was able to do what he did from among the heights. By means of the spirits he did his power against the creatures, not that he was in need, but that he might make known that it is the Lord who is over all.

His power was not insufficient for the help that his hands performed, and the creation bears witness that he alone called it and established it. Not by their hands did he accomplish all that he accomplished; the doer of all is he, for there is no limit to those who accomplish without him. Revelations were upon the righteous through the generations of generations, and it was not that they were ignorant; they served their revelations. Behold, the prophecy of the priest David: he sang it in spirit, and not one of the orders of the ministers approached it. The power of the spirit was with his pure soul, and it mounted the sounds of spiritual canticles. It was not by the senses that he heard the utterance of his people, but by the understanding that knows how to discern the speech of the spirit. Spiritually he sang all that the skilled singer sang, and there is nothing in his song that was not apart from the spirit. And no angel interpreted for him, and thus he sang. The power of the spirit was pressing within him upon his soul, and the senses of his body spoke the order of the members. As if a pen, the spirit was to the tongue of his mouth, and it wrote in him the letters of spiritual canticles. In this order his words are distinguished from those of the prophets, and they are not called by that name of prophecy. The name of the psalms of canticles is inscribed in his writing, and there is not there the word of the Lord and the word of the Lord.

One is the Lord who interprets his word by the mouth of his true ones. There is one who by a sign and one who by plain and simple speech. By plain speech Ahijah heard the command of his Lord and confirmed the existence of the one who was hiding the twelve righteous ones. By a revelation of the spirit he received this Shilohite and gave to the son of Abiak ten strips from his mystery. Here by revelation was the deed, and not by a mystery. Openly Jeroboam received ten strips. By revelation also Elijah stopped heaven and earth, and by deeds he restrained Ahab from his rebellion. By revelation Uklah received openly from the mouth of the crows, and with limbs he went and arrived at the furnace. By a hanging he increased flour and oil in the house of the widow, and he lived and made live according to the will of the one who willed in him. By revelation he removed a dead man openly from the mouth of death, and to the exhausted one he brought up sacrifices and brought down fire. Corporeally the daughter heard a voice and saw a vision. With the eyes of the body he saw a tremor and fire and spirit, and by that very remainder he heard the voice of the speaker of the spirit. These by revelation received Enoch, son of the inhabitants, and the one who redeemed from the pit before the evil one who was revealed to him. Here he did not feel the form of the wonderful miracles, but by revelation he received Enoch as it was spoken.

This is the clear and pure speech, without concealment, and there is in it no likeness of the dreams of dreams spiritually. By this path of revelation of words Elisha proceeded, and he received the spirit and performed mighty deeds for the sake of the seers. For the sake of the seers, he healed water with salt and vinegar, and sent wood after iron and raised it to the height. By the revealed word he cursed the youths who mocked his baldness, and bears came out and tore up forty-two without loss. Without concealment he gave the child to the Shunammite, and she conceived, and he revived the dead one who had fallen from the roof and raised him from among the dead. In this same manner he increased water in a dry place and gave sustenance to three kings who were in need. And in the same likeness he sweetened the broth that was in the holy vessel and increased the bread and made satiety without custom. With the eye of the body he saw the spirits that were hidden from him, and struck the Edomites with astonishment and blinded their eyes. By revelation of the spirit he saw the angel who came to his death, and he anticipated and closed the door so that the decree would be annulled and there would be satiety. One bodily form held a bow in the hand of the king and showed that he would conquer the Edomites three times. The spirit without body gave spirit in him after his death and raised the dead one who had fallen from the roof to scatter his rest. That command which gave him the face of humility, he performed with his hands the small signs of the heights from him.

Many are the revelations that Elisha received, and how great is the weakness of man from such as these! To this glory Isaiah saw within the sanctuary, and he trembled and was amazed at the purity of the holy man. "Woe to me," said Elisha before the revelation, "that the defilement of my lips has defiled the people of my father's house." Spiritually he saw the vision that was shown to him, and he marvelled and was astounded at the greatness of the vision and the madness of man. The vision of the power of the fullness that fills the abyss Isaiah saw: the king over all and the hosts that serve him. Not with eyes did he see the throne of divinity, nor did he receive the holiness of the seraphs by hearing. For it was a vision, not corporeal, that he saw in the air, and the name of God was inscribed within him, not God. Not God sat humanly within the sanctuary, nor were there wings for the spirits like birds. Nor was the perfection that approached him a perfection; rather, it was the order of the mystery of salvation that would be at the end. By the mystery of salvation the seraph was called to his lips and sought a way for that reconciliation of all peoples. With the whole he grasped the incorporeal corporeally, and that abyss rejoiced from something that is smaller than it. Smaller is the perfection than the angel who is without measure, and how much smaller is this than the angel from the silent one.

Woe to the weak and impure one who does not separate the heavy mystery, but to the mystery that was examined from his tranquility. Here learn how great is the power of the mystery of salvation, that the seraph of the spirit did not approach its purity. Here the foolish pride of Judaism is put to shame, which reads the books but is not instructed in the understanding of the books. In shame also stand the sects of the heretics, who do not give to the body of the Lord that it might be a body. The wretched church condemns the tonsured ones who comb the hair of the body's passions with divinity. In condemnation without victory stand all who mix me with the rebellion of the path of words. On the path of divine visions I desire to follow, and behold I am hindered from raising my thoughts to their purity. From the son of Amoz toward the son of Beriah my speech is strengthened, and I marvel greatly at the spirit of revelation that was toward him. Go, old man, take for yourself the two cheap ones, and in their simplicity form the evils of the two kinds. Without denial receive the dwelling with the foolish ones, and show the people how many are their deeds. In the cheap ones form the images of their cheapness, and in their destruction cut a lament over their sins. The names of your fathers were swords against the liars, that what is narrated remains a little from the evils.

In your good and evil deeds, declare to the sons of iniquity: And make known that there is wrath and there is forgiveness. This is the likeness of his prophecy, that of the pure Hosea, And it resembles his own, even the vision of the word of Joel. The hearing of power, make the sons of his people hear, And astonish them with the varieties of the threads of the words of his mouth. Hear, elders, and tremble, inhabitants of all the earth, For behold, the time of destruction has drawn near, before the thorns. The locust and the cricket, even the swallow, called to the foxes, And he arranged the threads of his utterance one after another. It was not the locust that the seer of mysteries saw, But the destruction of the Assyrians and the Babylonians. To the Assyrians, the locust and the cricket of the spark, And to the Babylonians, the swallow that strikes and withers. This is the power of the word of Joel, the herald of the spirit, And with his visions, he mingled with the lamentation of the day of judgment. To his likeness, Amos the shepherd of sheep also looked, And raised his voice and declared together the people and the nations. In one vision, the seer gathered the people and the nations, And taught them that his word is completed by deeds. Also Obadiah, with the voice of vision, confirmed his words, And humbled the pride of the Edomites by the decree of his judgment. Jonah served two things in one by his prophecy: The conversion of the Ninevites and the repentance of all the nations.

The flight of the peoples saw Bar Mattai in the visions of the prophets: And he cried out and was disturbed that the peoples would enter and the people would depart. The fearful fugitive cast himself down, the son of the Hebrews, So that the heavy burden of proclaiming repentance might not be concealed. The spirit of the air sent a spirit upon the fugitive, And he caught him with wine and brought his captive into the belly of the whale. With bonds of flesh his master bound the fearful servant, So that he might not learn to bear the yoke of the sons of men. To the yoke of men a divine revelation called him, And he went and buried him in the whale and sealed him with a mystery. For a mystery was that descent into the midst of the sea, Of that salvation which would come at the end for all peoples. With the mystery of the salvation of the death of the Lord who died, Bar Mattai, And with the flight of the Assyrians, the life of every man. To the whole creation he spread a vision through the prophets, And he prepared a way for the proclamation to the house of the peoples. He disturbs, therefore, the order of his word from the prophets, So that he might not share with the sons of his people in his prophecy. Micah in the way of his steps was his instruction, And that interpretation which Amos interpreted, he also interpreted. He also made heard voices of power to the sons of his people, And he prepared to go in the hearing of the old and the flight. Spiritual was the little one of his revelation, of the peacock of the spirit, And in spirit he examined that the Messiah would come and redeem the peoples.

Bar Mattai examined the fall of the Assyrians, and when the people were humbled from their dominion. Habakkuk sent forth his cry against the wicked, and believed and affirmed that a pursuit would come upon his error. Zephaniah cast down the cords of his companions in the captivity of his people, and sought and examined that the wall of the kingdom of Babylon would be destroyed. Haggai hastened after the building of the temple of holiness, and showed the people concerning the coming of the Greeks. Zechariah raised up the mysteries of his revelations, and praised the weight of the visions of the powers that he saw in his time. In his time, the spiritual ones showed him the spirit that chose him, and in his thought he formed images without substance. Spiritually he saw the chariots and their riders, which were being sent to destroy the peoples who would humble the people. In spirit he also wept at the gate of the spirit of grace, and without senses he looked at the lamps above it. The humility of the people he examined in the mysteries of his visions, which were revealed to him: the wickedness of kings and priests. After two olives, he compared the priesthood and also the kingdom, and saw that they stand from the right and from the left. By the name of deeds he measured the names of their names, one sweet and the other bitter, the thread of destruction. With a sickle he formed the decree of judgment that is over all peoples, and in the threshing-floors he cast the mysteries of the destruction of wickedness.

Spiritually he formed everything, a seer of the spirit. And he also preceded and examined the portion of the sons of Yawan. This is the vision of the spirit of revelations of prophecy. And to this vision the angel of mysteries affixed a seal in the likeness of the nature of the spirit, and sealed the words of prophecy and apostleship. The spirit revealed to him concerning the coming of the Antichrist, how the son of the inhabitants would come and subdue him. The severe portions of the demons, pressed down, the seer subdues, and he spreads out that error for the eyes of the beholders. By this, his watch strikes the creation, that he might show in it his great power to the worlds that are to come. His great power the Lord of prophets revealed to his prophets, and taught the sign of the fire, and made the sign wise. Through Jeremiah he made the world wise with a goad, and like a goad he drove him with the goad of the words of his mouth. The son of Helqiah cast a goad of wood upon his neck, and began to work the thought of fire with the sound of his words. This is the vision of the work of the mighty worker, the words of the spirit which he used to interpret in the hands of the people. Also Bar Buzi chose this among the Babylonians, that he might work the fire with the voice of divine revelations. In Babylon the son of the captivity received the spirit of revelation, where the people and the nations who say there is no God were scattered.

The mysteries of the chariot showed him a sign from God, that he might be pure in the whole world, both the rational and the silent. He saw the pure ones and the silent ones beneath the Creator, and that Creator, when he ascended above all. That chariot which the prophet saw is not a chariot, nor is the course of the wheels beneath it a body. There are no wheels that run secretly, nor are there beasts of burden drawing the yoke of the four faces. That chariot is a spirit that rides, not a thing that is ridden, and spiritually Ezekiel, the skilled of seers, saw it. To the Israelites and the Babylonians he signed with his vision that God, who is not, is everywhere. To that vision and word he clings in this revelation, to make known that he is over all, in all, and apart from all. In this, the fashioner of forms without form became a type, and taught his servant to fashion an image in the type of his words. Or, the divine likeness passed through the son of Buzi, and he began to fashion the truth of his revelations before the seers. He taught the whole people the vision that was shown to him, and testified to them that they should not dispute what they heard. The hearing of these things Daniel also heard, and he interpreted dreams and crowned kings on their faces. Through dreams the spiritual one taught him the small secrets, and when they were dreams, they served the order of prophecy.

In the chariot of the spirit of purity he saw everything, and there was nothing for him that was not with the spirit in his vision. The spirit showed him how to distinguish the dreams of the great image, and in his vision the Babylonians bowed and worshipped before him. By the spirit it revealed to him the king who was troubled over his humiliation, and it taught and made him wise that what is humbled is again exalted. In that same spirit he saw the foundation of the kingdom of Babylon, writing for him the sign of the spirit without incarnation. That same spirit showed him a vision greater than visions, which would encompass the whole world within its boundary. In the great sea it likened the vision that was shown to him, and four heavenly spirits above the firmament. He saw four beasts as they ascended from the sun, and the vision of all of them was disturbed, one from another. A lion, a leopard, and a bear, a fourth he was unwilling to name with the name of beasts. It is a beast also, even if it is said that its vision is terrifying, for at the beginning he said that he saw four beasts. Not corporeal beasts did Bar Shabya see, but rather the type of the heads of the nations of the earth. By the lion, which is strong, he signified Babylon, the head of confusion, and by the name leopard he signified Cyrus, the head of Persia. By the bear he likened the kingdom of Media, weak in strength, and by the fourth, the sons of Javan, who were swift in counsel.

In the great sea he likened the inhabited world of the whole earth, and in the four spiritual forces of the heavens. He divided the whole world among the spirits, and they perform the service of the four seasons. The spirit taught the prophet wisdom in this vision, and instructed him that the nations dwell and sit in the earth. In the dreams of the night he saw the vision of the full river, and when the dream was good, it was the full order of prophecy. The prophet was a humble one in lowliness, humbling kings, and prophetically he examined the vision of the four living creatures. The spirit showed him ancient visions in all his visions, and at the end he formed for him the image of the death of the Lord. He formed the image of the death for the humble one, the son of the Hebrews, and called him by name the Messiah who comes to seal the mysteries. In his death he examined that there is nothing more after his death that would complete the long course of prophecy. The prophet cast the seal of the spirit upon the revelations, and sealed that they were clear until his coming. Because his coming was all that was among the Hebrews, and before him prophets and kings examined until he came. Gabriel, the man of the spirit, also proclaimed his coming, and this is the reason why he was sent to Daniel. Daniel heard the name Gabriel, the man of the spirit, and greatly marveled at the wonder that he heard, which was not customary for him.

He had not heard the name Gabriel, nor all of it, until he heard it from the Spirit who called him by his name. For that name is a new name, this appellation which the prophet heard, and it is fitting that the one who runs the Mosaic order is named by his name. The name Michael was in the Mosaic order, that one who even now is called the ruler of the power of the people. He was full of the Mosaic administration from the beginning of the election of the people until the end. From the side of Hagar was the beginning of his activity, until he heard that daughter of the voice towards Mary. A protocosm was set for him by the Creator, and when he saw that she had approached, he gave his primacy to his companion. Gabriel took the primacy of the Israelites and gave it to the peoples as the meaning of the election. In the election he showed his name, the chosen man, that he would not be changed when he was sent in the embassy. He was destined to come and to bring the gospel of the fear of our Lord, and the interpretation was that this name was a memorial. If his name had not been among the records of the election, the Israelites would not have accepted his proclamation. Even the proclaimers of the proclamation would have been divided, that this Gabriel who is memorialized by his name. To this division Daniel put an end in the election, and he placed the name like a guide at the end of his book.

The path that began with him in this appellation of the name Gabriel, which halts the course of the name Michael and enters into his own. The name Michael is the name of a spiritual angel, and the name Gabriel is a man who was sent from God. The name of this man is upon that man who cries out from the earth, that one who is also a man, calling him in his proclamation. And what is this appellation of name and name, that one person and a spiritual person without a body? There is no need for spiritual names to be corporeal, and what is this that for only two there are appellations? Behold, their service reveals the names of their persons, and when one person is distinguished from another by appellation. The name Michael is a harshness of sinews mixed in his name, and because of this his writing is hidden in the book of Moses. The name Gabriel is a man of peace, full of his writing, and a witness to Mary, to whom he gave the proclamation of the fullness of peace. The proclamation of peace Gabriel gave to the pure soul, and when she was new, she received it in faith. Good was the new one who was proclaimed by the Spirit, that she might conceive in the virgin without union and partnership. By the power of the Spirit he fixed the conception from her thought, so that even the difficulties that exist for the need were made easy for him. With many things he confirmed his word concerning conception, and he gave a demonstration from Elizabeth who conceived hope.

To this spiritual man Zechariah saw him, and he was the one who announced to him concerning that child who was greater than children. In the holy temple Zechariah saw the angel of the spirit, and he trembled and was disturbed from the praise that was upon his person. "Woe, woe, the man whose name is Gabriel," he said to him, and the Lord sent him to bring the good news of the tidings of the blessing. Blessed is that messenger who was before the one who comes for the salvation of humanity, and the tidings came that the day of his birth had arrived. In silence he pondered, not understanding anything of what he heard, until the completion of the fortieth day of his birth. This is the beginning of the messengerhood of the spiritual one, who announced the tidings of the Baptist who was before the king. From there he began to inquire into the way of the Lord's birth, and his hand performed the visions of the day of his revelation. He was the one who showed the day of his birth to the shepherds, and he also made heard the voice of his glory among the lands. It was he who accomplished all that was spoken in the proclamation, and he was the one who ministered the mysteries of the revelations to the disciples. He was the one who approached in the time of suffering for the sake of the Savior, and he was the one whose heart was not troubled by the hearing of death. He was the one who quickly rolled away the great stone from the mouth of the tomb, and to him the women saw when he was standing in the form of a man. He, with his companion, stood up from silence before the disciples, and he astonished them with the beauty of the glory that they were clothed in.

He accomplished all things that were and are through the proclamation, just as Michael also accomplished through the leadership of the people. That same will that led the people through Michael, he accomplished through Gabriel in the newness of his revelations. The rank of the spiritual one is greater than that of the spirits, just as his proclamation is greater than everything. The name of the Messiah is much greater than all creatures; the Lord is greater than all his companions in proclaiming his sign. For the greatness of his rank, my speech is not sufficient, but only to show how glorious was the gospel that he proclaimed. Glorious is the salvation that he proclaimed in the land through earthly eyes, and heaven and earth bear witness with them to the greatness of their salvation. In the greatness of his power, the stars of the height were made ready, and the revelations of his signs served his proclaimers. The angel of the spirit chose Philip, one of the seven, to go and proclaim the gospel of life to those without hope. Through that man who turned many to faith by his word, thousands of Medes and Persians were formed in him. Here ended the word of the Lord that was spoken: "My teaching came to cast down among the earthly." Better than the mountain is the lip of the mountain of his proclamation, and it took root among all peoples on sea and land. By his great power, he subdued the world in its prime, and lowered the pride of Judaism and paganism.

In the land of Judah the preachers of faith cried out, and from Jerusalem was the beginning of the word that they proclaimed. By the spirit of revelation he heard her path among the peoples, and he cast her net and caught him before Cornelius. A great vision Bar Yo'a saw, the face of the height, and a beautiful sign hidden in it from all sides. All the peoples were hanging on what he saw, and that wonder in a single sign saw everything. For it was a vision of the shepherd, this vision, and spiritually he saw the rock, and it was not in the body. Spiritually he heard the voice of "Arise, anoint and eat," while it taught him not to separate from sinners. To the unclean peoples he called in the name of a magical sign, which receives the hidden will in familiarity. In Cornelius he began the path of the salvation of the peoples, and before her he set the teaching of the head of the disciples. An angel of the spirit saw the bodily one bodily, and commanded him to call the bodily one and to awaken life in him. To the equal wonder the word of the spiritual one said, that through a sign he teaches a sign, and he himself does not teach. The great order the angel kept in his embassy, that he not approach the high rank of the headship. To the apostleship the lord of the apostles gave a command, that they fulfill the preaching in the hands of the peoples.

Go, teach, baptize, and instruct among all the peoples, in the name of the Trinity, three names, one will. That command the Spirit completed when it was sent, and it spoke the word, and the fisherman did not wish to complete it by his actions. That man of the house of the fisherman, by means of a man, a man called a man to the proclamation. For a man was chosen, and he also was the head of the fishermen, and through him he sent to fish for a man for the fear of truth. With his nets he fished the world, the chosen one, and brought his catch into the midst of the mysteries of faith. With this net fished Paul, the skilled fisherman, and sent him on the path of proclamation to the house of the peoples. A chosen hundred called him when he brought him near to apostleship, and showed him that he was able to complete a man in faith. Better than every man he completed the will of his sender, and because of this he was worthy of the revelations that he cast from him. He casts much that a man might be exalted to the height of the virgin of height, and when he casts well, his fishing is perfected as it is written. It is said that he went to the land of the Edessans, which is very far, and there he heard a speech that was not heard by fishermen. O for the wonder that cannot be spoken by speakers, that a man heard a voice and spoke a speech that cannot be spoken. O difficult man, the word that your mouth speaks, and no man knows how it will come before the hearers.

Go, teach, baptize, and instruct among all the peoples, in the name of the Trinity, three names, one will. That command the Spirit completed when it was sent, and it spoke the word, and the fisherman did not wish to comp But who is able to speak the words of the Spirit? You, how did you hear or speak words that are difficult? Deep is the word, Paul the Chosen One, and the martyrs, even he who was not sufficient to explain the power of its meaning. I know that I went to the church, that one, its wonder at this: and I do not know how I went, only that I went. That I went alone, the Spirit revealed to me spiritually, and my mind was not sufficient to be left behind on the path I went. What does he say to the one who says that the word of Paul is that if he does not know, it is audacity to dispute with him. It is audacity to pursue words that are not utterable, and rashly, without the one who is able to hear them being aware. If the dead are not able to hear them, until they become immortal, how then do they hear them? It is new, that which happened to that man who spoke them, and he rightly said that he spoke and heard without custom. Without custom he heard the speech of the unutterable. What is clear is that he passed beyond the order of mortality. Paul alone desired to liken himself to the immortals, and he witnessed the power that gave him power to do these things. For the power of the Creator is that which makes something from nothing, and raises his works above something that is utterable. He it is who taught the small ones of his wisdom to the simple ones of his house, and interpreted something whose name is difficult to utter.

His power strengthened the weakness of the fisherman's mind, and his preaching spread throughout the world with glories that are invisible to him. The glories were the good words that the apostles spoke in the land, and no man knows that the power of their meaning is hidden. Wisely did everything that made man wise, and bound everything in the perfect love that is with the Lord of All. For this purpose that governs all, they remembered their thoughts, and the account of it was woven into the account of divine revelations. Its causes were also the revelations that the prophets saw, and like guides they directed him to the path of the day of his revelation. The day of his revelation opened the course of all revelations, and bound man and the heavens in the governance that is with him. In the governance that is with him, there was a covenant between him and all, and nothing remained that was not established with the Creator. Through a human being, this lover of man accomplished it, and in him the boundary was set, and death and the adversary were abolished. In him, immortal life reigned over mortality, and his warmth was in hope until the day of resurrection comes. He knew the dwelling of the sacrifice whose course is hidden, and he prepared another dwelling that is spacious and vast. He was fitting that the course of mortals be hidden in mortality, and he confessed that the arrow of death would be loosed from him. This was revealed to him, that he accomplished at the end of the sacrifices, and he prepared and revealed through revelations that he revealed to his servants.

They were like guides before his will, and he taught the way of ascent to man toward his will. Behold, man saw how much he loved the body of man, through which, in the lowly one, he reveals the love of his goodness. His love is shown through visions of images of likenesses, and he makes man go in joy to the death of a single human being. A single human being he chose from the whole race of mortals, and called him by his name and gave him the hope of his divinity. See, man, how much he raised you, setting a crown that took yours and gave you his own lovingly. Glorious is the will that called him by his glorious names, and small is the mouth of all creation to praise him with us. The debt of love that was toward us is not repaid; the eloquent and the mute are able to come to his greatness. He alone is sufficient to approve on behalf of our salvation, the son who knows that our body is less than the reward. Not reward does he seek from us, that one who has no need, but that he teach us that what he rewards us we enjoy in our strength. He teaches us when he urges us toward reward, and this is love, not the filling of his own need. He is worthy of praise from every mouth, glorious in his essence, while his glory in him urges his servants to glorify him. Prayer: Blessed is he who exalts his servants through his revelation, and makes man go to add praises to his greatness.