The Testament of Our Lord

I. 2

And Peter and John answered and said unto Him :—Tell us, O our Lord, the signs of the end,!? and all the deeds which shall then be [done] by them™ who live in this world, so that we also may make [them] known to them who believe in Thy Name in all the nations, that those? generations may observe * [them] and live. But Jesus answered and said :— ‘Did I not, before I suffered for those that dwell on the earth, tell you some things about the end?? We answered and said, [Yea,] O our Lord; but now we desire to know the deeds which [are] the signs of the end of this world, if our Lord hath judged that this is fitting for us to know *—for us, and for those who [shall] hear.

CHAPTER 35

And Jesus answered and said:—In the time when I was in the world,® I spoke unto you before I should be glorified, of signs that the end is near, thus:—that there shall be on earth famines and pestilences,’ tumults, and commotions, risings of nations against nations, and those other things whereof I have told you*® But I commanded you to watch and pray.® And now hear, ye children of the light ; for My Father who hath sent Me to His inheritance hath predetermined ” in His foreknowledge," that in the last days, out of the latest generation,” there should be vessels 18 [of grace] holy, and honoured, and elect. Wherefore I make known unto you exactly [what are] the things which are about to be, and when he shall arise,!* that Son of Perdition, the Enemy, the 1° Adversary,” and what he is like.