The Testament of Our Lord

I. 13

Then ® those who fear My words, and do them in truth and with a faithful mind,” shall watch and pray ® without ceasing,!§ reckoning continual supplication as a work, in nothing wandering or going about!” in this world, and in nothing anxious, but 18 with an austere 1 soul and a mind that doubteth not,” daily taking on them the cross,”4 to do the will of My 18. omits: and.

2 Treves fragm.: his right thigh lean, the shin bones slender. So in the Apocryphal Apocalypse of John, Antichrist has the legs of a cock (James, Apoc. Anecd. 156, 187).

3 Or: finger. 4 Treves fragm.. broken.

5M. B. omit thisclause. See Note for other MSS.

6 Cf. Rev. xiv. 15 in the Greek. See Note for the reading of C.

7 Lagarde vocalises the Syriac differently, and renders ws év émGeclg. This is improbable.

8 Ie. for merit ; lit.: shall raise over them their works, sc. for a shield in the day of trial. In the day of judgment, they shall be justified by their works. Cf. II. 15, and p. 28. Possibly there is a reference to Rev. xiv. 13. See Notes for the Treves fragm.

°C.: that Son of Perdition. 10 Lit.: with. 11B.: laws; C.: laws and precepts. 12§.,: Of the approach of the time of judgment. 18 Copto-arab.: Then our Lord Jesus Christ commanded us, saying : Say to them who fear My words and fulfil them in truth that they pray . . . 4 C, omits: with a faithful mind. 1 St. Matt. xxvi. 41. 16 1 Thess. v. 17. 17 Or: wrapped up. 18M. B.: also not. ! §. margin: contrite. 20 B.: a doubting mind (error); C.: when also they take up with nothing but with a manly soul and unhesitating mind. 21 Cf, St. Luke ix. 28. Father which is in heaven, with a meek heart. For He who is anxious about them that trust in the truth, and careth for them, is the Lord; and He sendeth to them those things which are right and fitting *—those things which He knoweth, and by the hands of them whom He knoweth.