| 1. Septuagint, 2 Esdras, 10-14, 3, 5-9, 4 (10th cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Salvesen et al., Israel in Egypt: The Land of Egypt as Concept and Reality for Jews in Antiquity and the Early Medieval Period (2020) 361 |
2. Hebrew Bible, Deuteronomy, 5.28-5.29, 18.18-18.19, 33.8-33.11 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Collins, The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature (2016) 200| 5.28. וְאַתָּה פֹּה עֲמֹד עִמָּדִי וַאֲדַבְּרָה אֵלֶיךָ אֵת כָּל־הַמִּצְוָה וְהַחֻקִּים וְהַמִּשְׁפָּטִים אֲשֶׁר תְּלַמְּדֵם וְעָשׂוּ בָאָרֶץ אֲשֶׁר אָנֹכִי נֹתֵן לָהֶם לְרִשְׁתָּהּ׃ 5.29. וּשְׁמַרְתֶּם לַעֲשׂוֹת כַּאֲשֶׁר צִוָּה יְהוָה אֱלֹהֵיכֶם אֶתְכֶם לֹא תָסֻרוּ יָמִין וּשְׂמֹאל׃ 18.18. נָבִיא אָקִים לָהֶם מִקֶּרֶב אֲחֵיהֶם כָּמוֹךָ וְנָתַתִּי דְבָרַי בְּפִיו וְדִבֶּר אֲלֵיהֶם אֵת כָּל־אֲשֶׁר אֲצַוֶּנּוּ׃ 18.19. וְהָיָה הָאִישׁ אֲשֶׁר לֹא־יִשְׁמַע אֶל־דְּבָרַי אֲשֶׁר יְדַבֵּר בִּשְׁמִי אָנֹכִי אֶדְרֹשׁ מֵעִמּוֹ׃ 33.8. וּלְלֵוִי אָמַר תֻּמֶּיךָ וְאוּרֶיךָ לְאִישׁ חֲסִידֶךָ אֲשֶׁר נִסִּיתוֹ בְּמַסָּה תְּרִיבֵהוּ עַל־מֵי מְרִיבָה׃ 33.9. הָאֹמֵר לְאָבִיו וּלְאִמּוֹ לֹא רְאִיתִיו וְאֶת־אֶחָיו לֹא הִכִּיר וְאֶת־בנו [בָּנָיו] לֹא יָדָע כִּי שָׁמְרוּ אִמְרָתֶךָ וּבְרִיתְךָ יִנְצֹרוּ׃ 33.11. בָּרֵךְ יְהוָה חֵילוֹ וּפֹעַל יָדָיו תִּרְצֶה מְחַץ מָתְנַיִם קָמָיו וּמְשַׂנְאָיו מִן־יְקוּמוּן׃ | 5.28. But as for thee, stand thou here by Me, and I will speak unto thee all the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordices, which thou shalt teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess it.’ 5.29. Ye shall observe to do therefore as the LORD your God hath commanded you; ye shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left. 18.18. I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee; and I will put My words in his mouth, and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him. 18.19. And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto My words which he shall speak in My name, I will require it of him. 33.8. And of Levi he said: Thy Thummim and Thy Urim be with Thy holy one, Whom Thou didst prove at Massah, With whom Thou didst strive at the waters of Meribah; 33.9. Who said of his father, and of his mother: ‘I have not seen him’; Neither did he acknowledge his brethren, Nor knew he his own children; For they have observed Thy word, And keep Thy covet. 33.10. They shall teach Jacob Thine ordices, And Israel Thy law; They shall put incense before Thee, And whole burnt-offering upon Thine altar. . 33.11. Bless, LORD, his substance, And accept the work of his hands; Smite through the loins of them that rise up against him, And of them that hate him, that they rise not again. |
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3. Hebrew Bible, Genesis, 49.9 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Collins, The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature (2016) 197, 344| 49.9. גּוּר אַרְיֵה יְהוּדָה מִטֶּרֶף בְּנִי עָלִיתָ כָּרַע רָבַץ כְּאַרְיֵה וּכְלָבִיא מִי יְקִימֶנּוּ׃ | 49.9. Judah is a lion’s whelp; From the prey, my son, thou art gone up. He stooped down, he couched as a lion, And as a lioness; who shall rouse him up? |
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4. Hebrew Bible, Malachi, 3.1, 4.5 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •psalms of solomon, qumran •psalms of solomon, two messiahs Found in books: Collins, The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature (2016) 205| 3.1. הָבִיאוּ אֶת־כָּל־הַמַּעֲשֵׂר אֶל־בֵּית הָאוֹצָר וִיהִי טֶרֶף בְּבֵיתִי וּבְחָנוּנִי נָא בָּזֹאת אָמַר יְהוָה צְבָאוֹת אִם־לֹא אֶפְתַּח לָכֶם אֵת אֲרֻבּוֹת הַשָּׁמַיִם וַהֲרִיקֹתִי לָכֶם בְּרָכָה עַד־בְּלִי־דָי׃ 3.1. הִנְנִי שֹׁלֵחַ מַלְאָכִי וּפִנָּה־דֶרֶךְ לְפָנָי וּפִתְאֹם יָבוֹא אֶל־הֵיכָלוֹ הָאָדוֹן אֲשֶׁר־אַתֶּם מְבַקְשִׁים וּמַלְאַךְ הַבְּרִית אֲשֶׁר־אַתֶּם חֲפֵצִים הִנֵּה־בָא אָמַר יְהוָה צְבָאוֹת׃ | 3.1. Behold, I send My messenger, and he shall clear the way before Me; and the Lord, whom ye seek, will suddenly come to His temple, and the messenger of the covet, Whom ye delight in, Behold, he cometh, Saith the LORD of hosts. |
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5. Hebrew Bible, Numbers, 21.18, 24.15-24.17 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •psalms of solomon, qumran •psalms of solomon, two messiahs •psalms of solomon •testamentary literature, psalms of solomon Found in books: Collins, The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature (2016) 176, 197, 200, 202| 21.18. בְּאֵר חֲפָרוּהָ שָׂרִים כָּרוּהָ נְדִיבֵי הָעָם בִּמְחֹקֵק בְּמִשְׁעֲנֹתָם וּמִמִּדְבָּר מַתָּנָה׃ 24.15. וַיִּשָּׂא מְשָׁלוֹ וַיֹּאמַר נְאֻם בִּלְעָם בְּנוֹ בְעֹר וּנְאֻם הַגֶּבֶר שְׁתֻם הָעָיִן׃ 24.16. נְאֻם שֹׁמֵעַ אִמְרֵי־אֵל וְיֹדֵעַ דַּעַת עֶלְיוֹן מַחֲזֵה שַׁדַּי יֶחֱזֶה נֹפֵל וּגְלוּי עֵינָיִם׃ 24.17. אֶרְאֶנּוּ וְלֹא עַתָּה אֲשׁוּרֶנּוּ וְלֹא קָרוֹב דָּרַךְ כּוֹכָב מִיַּעֲקֹב וְקָם שֵׁבֶט מִיִּשְׂרָאֵל וּמָחַץ פַּאֲתֵי מוֹאָב וְקַרְקַר כָּל־בְּנֵי־שֵׁת׃ | 21.18. The well, which the princes digged, Which the nobles of the people delved, With the sceptre, and with their staves. And from the wilderness to Mattanah; 24.15. And he took up his parable, and said: The saying of Balaam the son of Beor, And the saying of the man whose eye is opened; 24.16. The saying of him who heareth the words of God, And knoweth the knowledge of the Most High, Who seeth the vision of the Almighty, Fallen down, yet with opened eyes: 24.17. I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not nigh; There shall step forth a star out of Jacob, And a scepter shall rise out of Israel, And shall smite through the corners of Moab, And break down all the sons of Seth. 24. And Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel dwelling tribe by tribe; and the spirit of God came upon him.,And out of Jacob shall one have dominion, And shall destroy the remt from the city.,And he took up his parable, and said: Alas, who shall live after God hath appointed him?,And Balaam rose up, and went and returned to his place; and Balak also went his way.,He couched, he lay down as a lion, And as a lioness; who shall rouse him up? Blessed be every one that blesseth thee, And cursed be every one that curseth thee.,And Edom shall be a possession, Seir also, even his enemies, shall be a possession; While Israel doeth valiantly.,I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not nigh; There shall step forth a star out of Jacob, And a scepter shall rise out of Israel, And shall smite through the corners of Moab, And break down all the sons of Seth.,And now, behold, I go unto my people; come, and I will announce to thee what this people shall do to thy people in the end of days.’,And Balak’s anger was kindled against Balaam, and he smote his hands together; and Balak said unto Balaam: ‘I called thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast altogether blessed them these three times.,The saying of him who heareth the words of God, And knoweth the knowledge of the Most High, Who seeth the vision of the Almighty, Fallen down, yet with opened eyes:,How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, Thy dwellings, O Israel!,Therefore now flee thou to thy place; I thought to promote thee unto great honour; but, lo, the LORD hath kept thee back from honour.’,God who brought him forth out of Egypt Is for him like the lofty horns of the wild-ox; He shall eat up the nations that are his adversaries, And shall break their bones in pieces, And pierce them through with his arrows.,And he looked on the Kenite, and took up his parable, and said: Though firm be thy dwelling-place, And though thy nest be set in the rock;,And he looked on Amalek, and took up his parable, and said: Amalek was the first of the nations; But his end shall come to destruction.,But ships shall come from the coast of Kittim, And they shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber, And he also shall come to destruction.,And he took up his parable, and said: The saying of Balaam the son of Beor, And the saying of the man whose eye is opened;,Nevertheless Kain shall be wasted; How long? Asshur shall carry thee away captive. .,As valleys stretched out, As gardens by the river-side; As aloes planted of the LORD, As cedars beside the waters;,The saying of him who heareth the words of God, Who seeth the vision of the Almighty, Fallen down, yet with opened eyes:,If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the LORD, to do either good or bad of mine own mind; what the LORD speaketh, that will I speak?,And Balaam said unto Balak: ‘Spoke I not also to thy messengers that thou didst send unto me, saying:,Water shall flow from his branches, And his seed shall be in many waters; And his king shall be higher than Agag, And his kingdom shall be exalted.,And when Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he went not, as at the other times, to meet with enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness.,And he took up his parable, and said: The saying of Balaam the son of Beor, And the saying of the man whose eye is opened; |
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6. Hebrew Bible, Psalms, 2.7 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Collins, The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature (2016) 177, 197, 199| 2.7. אֲסַפְּרָה אֶל חֹק יְהוָה אָמַר אֵלַי בְּנִי אַתָּה אֲנִי הַיּוֹם יְלִדְתִּיךָ׃ | 2.7. I will tell of the decree: The LORD said unto me: 'Thou art My son, this day have I begotten thee. 2. Do homage in purity, lest He be angry, and ye perish in the way, when suddenly His wrath is kindled. Happy are all they that take refuge in Him.,Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.,Then will He speak unto them in His wrath, and affright them in His sore displeasure:,Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; Thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.',He that sitteth in heaven laugheth, the Lord hath them in derision.,The kings of the earth stand up, And the rulers take counsel together, Against the LORD, and against His anointed:,Now therefore, O ye kings, be wise; be admonished, ye judges of the earth.,'Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.',I will tell of the decree: The LORD said unto me: 'Thou art My son, this day have I begotten thee.,Ask of Me, and I will give the nations for thine inheritance, and the ends of the earth for thy possession.,'Truly it is I that have established My king upon Zion, My holy mountain.',Why are the nations in an uproar? And why do the peoples mutter in vain? |
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7. Hebrew Bible, Exodus, 20.21 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •psalms of solomon, qumran •psalms of solomon, two messiahs Found in books: Collins, The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature (2016) 200| 20.21. מִזְבַּח אֲדָמָה תַּעֲשֶׂה־לִּי וְזָבַחְתָּ עָלָיו אֶת־עֹלֹתֶיךָ וְאֶת־שְׁלָמֶיךָ אֶת־צֹאנְךָ וְאֶת־בְּקָרֶךָ בְּכָל־הַמָּקוֹם אֲשֶׁר אַזְכִּיר אֶת־שְׁמִי אָבוֹא אֵלֶיךָ וּבֵרַכְתִּיךָ׃ | 20.21. An altar of earth thou shalt make unto Me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt-offerings, and thy peace-offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen; in every place where I cause My name to be mentioned I will come unto thee and bless thee. |
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8. Hebrew Bible, 2 Samuel, 7.14 (8th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •psalms of solomon, qumran •psalms of solomon, son of god •psalms of solomon, two messiahs Found in books: Collins, The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature (2016) 196, 199| 7.14. אֲנִי אֶהְיֶה־לּוֹ לְאָב וְהוּא יִהְיֶה־לִּי לְבֵן אֲשֶׁר בְּהַעֲוֺתוֹ וְהֹכַחְתִּיו בְּשֵׁבֶט אֲנָשִׁים וּבְנִגְעֵי בְּנֵי אָדָם׃ | 7.14. I will be his father, and he will be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with such plagues as befall the sons of Adam: 7. Moreover I have appointed a place for my people Yisra᾽el, and planted them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and be troubled no more; neither shall the children of wickedness torment them any more, as at the beginning,,And it came to pass, when the king sat in his house, and the Lord had given him rest round about from all his enemies;,He shall build a house for my name, and I will make firm the throne of his kingdom for ever.,And thy house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee: thy throne shall be firm for ever.,And it came to pass that night, that the word of the Lord came to Natan, saying,,And Natan said to the king, Go, do all that is in thy heart; for the Lord is with thee.,And this was yet a small thing in Thy sight, O Lord God; but Thou hast also spoken of Thy servant’s house continuing for a great while to come. And does any man deserve such a course, O Lord God!,According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Natan speak to David.,Therefore Thou art great, O Lord God: for there is none like Thee, neither is there any god besides Thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.,therefore now let it please Thee to bless the house of Thy servant, that it may continue for ever before Thee: for Thou, O Lord God, hast spoken it: and with Thy blessing let the house of Thy servant be blessed for ever.,And when the days are fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, who shall issue from thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.,In all the places where I have walked with all the children of Yisra᾽el, did I speak a word with any of the rulers of Yisra᾽el, whom I commanded as shepherds of my people Yisra᾽el, saying, Why do you not build me a house of cedar?,And now, O Lord God, the word that Thou hast spoken concerning Thy servant, and concerning his house, establish it for ever, and do as Thou hast said,,For Thou, O Lord of hosts, God of Yisra᾽el, hast revealed to Thy servant, saying, I will build thee a house: therefore has Thy servant found it in his heart to pray this prayer to Thee.,but my covet love shall not depart away from him, as I took it from Sha᾽ul, whom I put away before thee.,that the king said to Natan the prophet, See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells within curtain.,and I was with thee wherever thou didst go, and have cut off all thy enemies out of thy sight, and have made thee a great name, like the name of the great men that are on the earth.,For Thy word’s sake, and according to Thy own heart, hast Thou done all these great things, to make Thy servant know them.,Then king David went in, and sat before the Lord, and he said, Who am I, O Lord God? and what is my house, that Thou hast brought me thus far?,For I have not dwelt in any house since that time that I brought up the children of Yisra᾽el out of Miżrayim, even to this day, but I have walked in a tent and in a tabernacle.,Go and tell my servant David, Thus says the Lord, shalt thou build me a house for me to dwell in?,For Thou hast confirmed to Thyself Thy people Yisra᾽el to be a people to Thee for ever: and Thou, Lord, art become their God.,And let Thy name be magnified for ever, saying, The Lord of hosts is the God over Yisra᾽el: and let the house of Thy servant David be established before Thee.,And what can David say more to Thee? for Thou, Lord God, knowst Thy servant.,And what one nation in the earth is like Thy people, like Yisra᾽el, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself, and to make himself a name, and to do like the great things and terrible which Thou didst for Thy land, by driving out from before Thy people, whom Thou didst redeem to Thee from Miżrayim, the nations and their gods?,and as since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Yisra᾽el; but I will give thee rest from all thy enemies, and the Lord tells thee that he will make thee a house.,And now, O Lord God, Thou art the God, and let Thy words come true, as Thou hast promised this goodness to Thy servant:,I will be his father, and he will be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with such plagues as befall the sons of Adam:,Now therefore so shalt thou say to my servant David, Thus says the Lord of hosts, I took thee from the sheepfold, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Yisra᾽el: |
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9. Hebrew Bible, 1 Kings, 19.16 (8th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •psalms of solomon, qumran •psalms of solomon, two messiahs Found in books: Collins, The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature (2016) 205| 19.16. וְאֵת יֵהוּא בֶן־נִמְשִׁי תִּמְשַׁח לְמֶלֶךְ עַל־יִשְׂרָאֵל וְאֶת־אֱלִישָׁע בֶּן־שָׁפָט מֵאָבֵל מְחוֹלָה תִּמְשַׁח לְנָבִיא תַּחְתֶּיךָ׃ | 19.16. and Jehu the son of Nimshi shalt thou anoint to be king over Israel; and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah shalt thou anoint to be prophet in thy room. |
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10. Hebrew Bible, Jeremiah, 23.5-23.6, 33.17-33.22 (8th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Collins, The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature (2016) 196, 197| 23.5. הִנֵּה יָמִים בָּאִים נְאֻם־יְהוָה וַהֲקִמֹתִי לְדָוִד צֶמַח צַדִּיק וּמָלַךְ מֶלֶךְ וְהִשְׂכִּיל וְעָשָׂה מִשְׁפָּט וּצְדָקָה בָּאָרֶץ׃ 33.17. כִּי־כֹה אָמַר יְהוָה לֹא־יִכָּרֵת לְדָוִד אִישׁ יֹשֵׁב עַל־כִּסֵּא בֵית־יִשְׂרָאֵל׃ 33.18. וְלַכֹּהֲנִים הַלְוִיִּם לֹא־יִכָּרֵת אִישׁ מִלְּפָנָי מַעֲלֶה עוֹלָה וּמַקְטִיר מִנְחָה וְעֹשֶׂה־זֶּבַח כָּל־הַיָּמִים׃ 33.19. וַיְהִי דְּבַר־יְהוָה אֶל־יִרְמְיָהוּ לֵאמוֹר׃ 33.21. גַּם־בְּרִיתִי תֻפַר אֶת־דָּוִד עַבְדִּי מִהְיוֹת־לוֹ בֵן מֹלֵךְ עַל־כִּסְאוֹ וְאֶת־הַלְוִיִּם הַכֹּהֲנִים מְשָׁרְתָי׃ 33.22. אֲשֶׁר לֹא־יִסָּפֵר צְבָא הַשָּׁמַיִם וְלֹא יִמַּד חוֹל הַיָּם כֵּן אַרְבֶּה אֶת־זֶרַע דָּוִד עַבְדִּי וְאֶת־הַלְוִיִּם מְשָׁרְתֵי אֹתִי׃ | 23.5. Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous shoot, and he shall reign as king and prosper, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land. 33.17. For thus saith the LORD: There shall not be cut off unto David a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel; 33.18. neither shall there be cut off unto the priests the Levites a man before Me to offer burnt-offerings, and to burn meal-offerings, and to do sacrifice continually. 33.19. And the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, saying: 33.20. Thus saith the LORD: If ye can break My covet with the day, And My covet with the night, So that there should not be day and night in their season; 33.21. Then may also My covet be broken with David My servant, That he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; And with the Levites the priests, My ministers. 33.22. As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, Neither the sand of the sea measured; So will I multiply the seed of David My servant, And the Levites that minister unto Me. |
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11. Hebrew Bible, Isaiah, 61, 10, 61.2, 11.2, 61.1, 11.5, 14, 11, 11.4, 11.4b (8th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Collins, The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature (2016) 205, 206, 330 | 61. I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, My soul shall be joyful in my God; For He hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, He hath covered me with the robe of victory, As a bridegroom putteth on a priestly diadem, And as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.,The spirit of the Lord God is upon me; Because the LORD hath anointed me To bring good tidings unto the humble; He hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives, And the opening of the eyes to them that are bound;,To proclaim the year of the LORD’S good pleasure, And the day of vengeance of our God; To comfort all that mourn;,And their seed shall be known among the nations, And their offspring among the peoples; All that see them shall acknowledge them, That they are the seed which the LORD hath blessed.,And they shall build the old wastes, They shall raise up the former desolations, And they shall renew the waste cities, The desolations of many generations.,But ye shall be named the priests of the LORD, Men shall call you the ministers of our God; Ye shall eat the wealth of the nations, And in their splendour shall ye revel.,To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, To give unto them a garland for ashes, The oil of joy for mourning, The mantle of praise for the spirit of heaviness; That they might be called terebinths of righteousness, The planting of the LORD, wherein He might glory.,For I the LORD love justice, I hate robbery with iniquity; And I will give them their recompense in truth, And I will make an everlasting covet with them.,And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, And aliens shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.,For as the earth bringeth forth her growth, And as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; So the Lord GOD will cause victory and glory To spring forth before all the nations.,For your shame which was double, And for that they rejoiced: ‘Confusion is their portion’; Therefore in their land they shall possess double, Everlasting joy shall be unto them. |
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12. Hebrew Bible, Ezekiel, 28 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •psalms of solomon, qumran •psalms of solomon, son of god •psalms of solomon, two messiahs Found in books: Collins, The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature (2016) 199 | 28. Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised By the hand of strangers; For I have spoken, saith the Lord GOD.’,By the multitude of thy traffic they filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned; therefore have I cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God; and I have destroyed thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.,Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD: Because thou hast set thy heart As the heart of God;,All they that know thee among the peoples shall be appalled at thee; thou art become a terror, and thou shalt never be any more.’,And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying:,Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till unrighteousness was found in thee.,For I will send into her pestilence And blood in her streets; And the wounded shall fall in the midst of her By the sword upon her on every side; and they shall know that I am the LORD.,’Son of man, set thy face toward Zidon, and prophesy against it,,and say: Thus saith the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against thee, O Zidon, And I will be glorified in the midst of thee; And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall have executed judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in her.,’Son of man, take up a lamentation for the king of Tyre, and say unto him: Thus saith the Lord GOD: Thou seal most accurate, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty,,Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel! There is no secret that they can hide from thee!,Thou wast the far-covering cherub; and I set thee, so that thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of stones of fire.,’Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyre: Thus saith the Lord GOD: Because thy heart is lifted up, And thou hast said: I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, In the heart of the seas; Yet thou art man, and not God, Though thou didst set thy heart as the heart of God—,Therefore, behold, I will bring strangers upon thee, The terrible of the nations; And they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, And they shall defile thy brightness. .,Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee: I am God? But thou art man, and not God, In the hand of them that defile thee.,Thus saith the Lord GOD: When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered, and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the nations, then shall they dwell in their own land which I gave to My servant Jacob.,By the multitude of thine iniquities, in the unrighteousness of thy traffic, thou hast profaned thy sanctuaries; therefore have I brought forth a fire from the midst of thee, it hath devoured thee, and I have turned thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.,They shall bring thee down to the pit; And thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain, In the heart of the seas.,Thy heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness; I have cast thee to the ground, I have laid thee before kings, that they may gaze upon thee.,And there shall be no more a pricking brier unto the house of Israel, nor a piercing thorn of any that are round about them, that did have them in disdain; and they shall know that I am the Lord GOD.,By thy wisdom and by thy discernment Thou hast gotten thee riches, And hast gotten gold and silver Into thy treasures;,In thy great wisdom by thy traffic Hast thou increased thy riches, And thy heart is lifted up because of thy riches—,thou wast in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the carnelian, the topaz, and the emerald, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the carbuncle, and the smaragd, and gold; the workmanship of thy settings and of thy sockets was in thee, in the day that thou wast created they were prepared.,And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying:,And they shall dwell safely therein, and shall build houses, and plant vineyards; yea, they shall dwell safely; when I have executed judgments upon all those that have them in disdain round about them; and they shall know that I am the LORD their God.’,Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying: |
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13. Hebrew Bible, Zechariah, 4.14 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •psalms of solomon, qumran •psalms of solomon, two messiahs •psalms of solomon, testaments of the twelve patriarchs Found in books: Collins, The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature (2016) 174, 201| 4.14. וַיֹּאמֶר אֵלֶּה שְׁנֵי בְנֵי־הַיִּצְהָר הָעֹמְדִים עַל־אֲדוֹן כָּל־הָאָרֶץ׃ | 4.14. Then said he: ‘These are the two anointed ones, that stand by the Lord of the whole earth.’ 4. and two olive-trees by it, one upon the right side of the bowl, and the other upon the left side thereof.’,For who hath despised the day of small things? even they shall see with joy the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel, even these seven, which are the eyes of the LORD, that run to and fro through the whole earth.’,And I answered the second time, and said unto him: ‘What are these two olive branches, which are beside the two golden spouts, that empty the golden oil out of themselves?’,Then said he: ‘These are the two anointed ones, that stand by the Lord of the whole earth.’,Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying:,Who art thou, O great mountain before Zerubbabel? thou shalt become a plain; and he shall bring forth the top stone with shoutings of Grace, grace, unto it.’,Then he answered and spoke unto me, saying: ‘This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying: Not by might, nor by power, but by My spirit, saith the LORD of hosts.,And he answered me and said: ‘Knowest thou not what these are?’ And I said: ‘No, my lord.’,’The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also finish it; and thou shalt know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto you.,Then the angel that spoke with me answered and said unto me: ‘Knowest thou not what these are?’ And I said: ‘No, my lord.’,And I answered and spoke to the angel that spoke with me, saying: ‘What are these, my lord?’,And the angel that spoke with me returned, and waked me, as a man that is wakened out of his sleep.,Then answered I, and said unto him: ‘What are these two olive-trees upon the right side of the candlestick and upon the left side thereof?’,And he said unto me: ‘What seest thou?’ And I said: ‘I have seen, and behold a candlestick all of gold, with a bowl upon the top of it, and its seven lamps thereon; there are seven pipes, yea, seven, to the lamps, which are upon the top thereof; |
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14. Anon., 1 Enoch, 48.1, 48.5, 62.14 (3rd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Collins, The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature (2016) 236, 238, 344 | 48.1. And in that place I saw the fountain of righteousness Which was inexhaustible: And around it were many fountains of wisdom: And all the thirsty drank of them, And were filled with wisdom, And their dwellings were with the righteous and holy and elect. 48.1. And on the day of their affliction there shall be rest on the earth, And before them they shall fall and not rise again: And there shall be no one to take them with his hands and raise them: For they have denied the Lord of Spirits and His Anointed. The name of the Lord of Spirits be blessed. 48.5. All who dwell on earth shall fall down and worship before him, And will praise and bless and celebrate with song the Lord of Spirits. 62.14. And the Lord of Spirits will abide over them, And with that Son of Man shall they eat And lie down and rise up for ever and ever. |
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15. Septuagint, Ecclesiasticus (Siracides), 48.1, 48.3 (2nd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •psalms of solomon, qumran •psalms of solomon, two messiahs Found in books: Collins, The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature (2016) 205, 206 | 48.1. Then the prophet Elijah arose like a fire,and his word burned like a torch. 48.1. you who are ready at the appointed time, it is written,to calm the wrath of God before it breaks out in fury,to turn the heart of the father to the son,and to restore the tribes of Jacob. 48.3. By the word of the Lord he shut up the heavens,and also three times brought down fire. |
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16. Anon., Psalms of Solomon, 2.25, 3.12, 13.11, 14.3, 15.13, 16.1-16.3, 17.2, 17.5-17.7, 17.35, 18.6-18.8 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Collins, The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature (2016) 176, 196, 197 | 3.12. He addeth sins to sins, while he liveth (?); 14.3. Their planting is rooted for ever; They shall not be plucked up all the days of heaven: For the portion and the inheritance of God is Israel. 17.5. Thou, O Lord, didst choose David (to be) king over Israel, And swaredst to him touching his seed that never should his kingdom fail before Thee. 17.6. But, for our sins, sinners rose up against us; They assailed us and thrust us out; What Thou hadst not promised to them, they took away (from us) with violence. 17.7. They in no wise glorified Thy honourable name; They set a (worldly) monarchy in place of (that which was) their excellency; 18.6. May God cleanse Israel against the day of mercy and blessing, Against the day of choice when He bringeth back His anointed. |
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17. Anon., Jubilees, 31 (2nd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •psalms of solomon, qumran •psalms of solomon, testaments of the twelve patriarchs •psalms of solomon, two messiahs Found in books: Collins, The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature (2016) 174 | 31. And on the new moon of the month Jacob spake to all the people of his house, saying: "Purify yourselves and change your garments,,and let us arise and go up to Bethel, where I vowed a vow to Him on the day when I fled from the face of Esau my brother, because He hath been with me and brought me into this land in peace,,and put ye away the strange gods that are among you."rAnd they gave up the strange gods and that which was in their ears and which was on their necks, and the idols which Rachel stole from Laban her brother,she gave wholly to Jacob. And he burnt and brake them to pieces and destroyed them, and hid them under an oak which is in the land of Shechem.,And he went up on the new moon of the seventh month to Bethel. And he built an altar at the place where he had slept, and he set up a pillar there,,and he sent word to his father Isaac to come to him to his sacrifice, and to his mother Rebecca.,And Isaac said: "Let my son Jacob come, and let me see him before I die.",And Jacob went to his father Isaac and to his mother Rebecca, to the house of his father Abraham, and he took two of his sons with him, Levi and Judah, and he came to his father Isaac and to his mother Rebecca.,And Rebecca came forth from the tower to the front of it to kiss Jacob and embrace him; for her spirit had revived when she heard: "Behold Jacob thy son hath come";,and she kissed him.rAnd she saw his two sons, and she recognised them, and said unto him: "Are these thy sons, my son?",and she embraced them and kissed them, and blessed them, saying: "In you shall the seed of Abraham become illustrious, and ye will prove a blessing on the earth." ,And Jacob went in to Isaac his father, to the chamber where he lay, and his two sons were with him,,and he took the hand of his father, and stooping down he kissed him, and Isaac clung to the neck of Jacob his son, and wept upon his neck.,And the darkness left the eyes of Isaac, and he saw the two sons of Jacob, Levi and Judah, and he said: "Are these thy sons, my son? for they are like thee.",And he said unto him that they were truly his sons: "And thou hast truly seen that they are truly my sons.",And they came near to him, and he turned and kissed them and embraced them both together.,And the spirit of prophecy came down into his mouth, and he took Levi by his right hand and Judah by his left.,And he turned to Levi first, and began to bless him first, and said unto him:, 'May the God of all, the very Lord of all the ages, bless thee and thy children throughout all the ages.,And may the Lord give to thee and to thy seed greatness and great glory, and cause thee and thy seed, from among all flesh, to approach Him to serve in His sanctuary as the angels of the presence and as the holy ones.,(Even) as they, will the seed of thy sons be for glory and greatness and holiness,,and may He make them great unto all the ages.rAnd they will be princes and judges, and chiefs of all the seed of the sons of Jacob;,They will speak the word of the Lord in righteousness, And they will judge all His judgments in righteousness. And they will declare My ways to Jacob. And My paths to Israel.,The blessing of the Lord will be given in their mouths To bless all the seed of the beloved.,Thy mother hath called thy name Levi,,And justly hath she called thy name; Thou wilt be joined to the Lord And be the companion of all the sons of Jacob; Let His table be thine, And do thou and thy sons eat thereof; And may thy table be full unto all generations, And thy food fail not unto all the ages.,And let all who hate thee fall down before thee, And let all thy adversaries be rooted out and perish;,And blessed be he that blesseth thee, And cursed be every nation that curseth thee.,And to Judah he said: May the Lord give thee strength and power To tread down all that hate thee;,A prince shalt thou be, thou and one of thy sons, over the sons of Jacob; May thy name and the name of thy sons go forth and traverse every land and region.,Then will the Gentiles fear before thy face, And all the nations will quake [And all the peoples will quake].,In thee shall be the help of Jacob, And in thee be found the salvation of Israel.,And when thou sittest on the throne of the honour of thy righteousness, There will be great peace for all the seed of the sons of the beloved, ,And blessed will he be that blesseth thee; And all that hate thee and afflict thee and curse thee Shall be rooted out and destroyed from the earth and accursed.",And turning he kissed him again and embraced him, and rejoiced greatly; for he had seen the sons of Jacob his son in very truth.,And he went forth from between his feet and fell down and worshipped him. And he blessed them. And (Jacob) rested there with Isaac his father that night, and they ate and drank with joy.,And he made the two sons of Jacob sleep, the one on his right hand and the other on his left and it was counted to him for righteousness.,And Jacob told his father everything during the night, how the Lord had shown him great mercy, and how He had prospered (him in) all his ways, and protected him from all evil.,And Isaac blessed the God of his father Abraham, who had not withdrawn His mercy and His righteousness from the sons of His servant Isaac.,And in the morning Jacob told his father Isaac the vow which he had vowed to the Lord, and the vision which he had seen, and that he had built an altar, and that everything was ready for the sacrifice to be made before the Lord as he had vowed, and that he had come to set him on an ass.,And Isaac said unto Jacob his son: "I am not able to go with thee; for I am old, and not able to bear the way:,go, my son, in peace; for I am one hundred and sixty-five years this day; I am no longer able to journey, set thy mother (on an ass) and let her go with thee.,And I know, my son, that thou hast come on my account, and may this day be blessed on which thou hast seen me alive, and I also have seen thee, my son.,Mayest thou prosper and fulfil the vow which thou hast vowed, and put not off thy vow; for thou wilt be called to account as touching the vow;,now therefore make haste to perform it, and may He be pleased who hath made all things, to whom thou hast vowed the vow.",And he said to Rebecca: "Go with Jacob thy son"; and Rebecca went with Jacob her son, and Deborah with her, and they came to Bethel.,And Jacob remembered the prayer with which his father had blessed him and his two sons, Levi and Judah, and he rejoiced and blessed the God of his fathers, Abraham and Isaac.,And he said: "Now I know that I have an eternal hope, and my sons also, before the God of all;" and thus is it ordained concerning the two; and they record it as an eternal testimony unto them on the heavenly tables how Isaac blessed them. |
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18. Anon., Testament of Benjamin, 10.6-10.10 (2nd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •psalms of solomon, testaments of the twelve patriarchs Found in books: Collins, The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature (2016) 175 | 10.6. For all these things they gave us for an inheritance, saying: Keep the commandments of God, until the Lord shall reveal His salvation to all Gentiles. |
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19. Anon., Testament of Dan, 5.1 (2nd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •psalms of solomon, testaments of the twelve patriarchs Found in books: Collins, The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature (2016) 173 | 5.1. Observe, therefore, my children, the commandments of the Lord, And keep His law; Depart from wrath, And hate lying, That the Lord may dwell among you, And Beliar may flee from you. |
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20. Anon., Testament of Gad, 8.2 (2nd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •psalms of solomon, testaments of the twelve patriarchs Found in books: Collins, The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature (2016) 173 | 8.2. For I know that at the last your children shall depart from Him, and shall walk in O wickedness, and affliction and corruption before the Lord. |
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23. Anon., Testament of Joseph, 19.6 (2nd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •psalms of solomon, qumran •psalms of solomon, testaments of the twelve patriarchs •psalms of solomon, two messiahs Found in books: Collins, The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature (2016) 174 | 19.6. And the horns of the fourth bull went up unto heaven and became as a wall for the flocks, and in the midst of the two horns there grew another horn. |
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24. Anon., Testament of Levi, 18.10-18.14 (2nd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •psalms of solomon, testaments of the twelve patriarchs •psalms of solomon, qumran •psalms of solomon, two messiahs Found in books: Collins, The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature (2016) 174, 175 | 18. And after their punishment shall have come from the Lord, the priesthood shall fail.,Then shall the Lord raise up a new priest. And to him all the words of the Lord shall be revealed; And he shall execute a righteous judgement upon the earth for a multitude of days.,And his star shall arise in heaven as of a king. Lighting up the light of knowledge as the sun the day, And he shall be magnified in the world.,He shall shine forth as the sun on the earth, And shall remove all darkness from under heaven, And there shall be peace in all the earth.,The heavens shall exult in his days, And the earth shall be glad, And the clouds shall rejoice, [And the knowledge of the Lord shall be poured forth upon the earth, as the water of the seas; And the angels of the glory of the presence of the Lord shall be glad in him.,The heavens shall be opened, And From the temple of glory shall come upon him sanctification, With the Father's voice as from Abraham to Isaac.,And the glory of the Most High shall be uttered over him, And the spirit of understanding and sanctification shall rest upon him [in the water]. ,For he shall give the majesty of the Lord to His sons in truth for evermore; And there shall none succeed him for all generations for ever.,And in his priesthood the Gentiles shall be multiplied in knowledge upon the earth, And enlightened through the grace of the Lord: In his priesthood shall sin come to an end, And the lawless shall cease to do evil. [And the just shall rest in him.],And he shall open the gates of paradise, And shall remove the threatening sword against Adam.,And he shall give to the saints to eat from the tree of life, And the spirit of holiness shall be on them.,And Beliar shall be bound by him, And he shall give power to His children to tread upon the evil spirits. ,And the Lord shall rejoice in His children, And be well pleased in His beloved ones for ever.,Then shall Abraham and Isaac and Jacob exult, And I will be glad, And all the saints shall clothe themselves with joy.,If ye also, therefore, walk in the commandments of the Lord, my children, He will exalt you there, and will bless you with good things for ever and ever.,And if any one seeketh to do evil unto you, do well unto him, and pray for him, and ye shall be redeemed of the Lord from all evil., [For], behold, ye see that out of my humility and long -suffering I took unto wife the daughter of the priest of Heliopolis. And a hundred talents of gold were given me with her, and the Lord made them to serve me.,And He gave me also beauty as a flower beyond the beautiful ones of Israel; and He preserved me unto old age in strength and in beauty, because I was like in all things to Jacob. |
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25. Anon., Testament of Reuben, 6.7 (2nd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •psalms of solomon, testaments of the twelve patriarchs Found in books: Collins, The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature (2016) 173 | 6.7. For to Levi God gave the sovereignty [and to Judah with him and to me also, and to Dan and Joseph, that we should be for rulers]. |
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26. Anon., Testament of Simeon, 6.7 (2nd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •psalms of solomon, testaments of the twelve patriarchs Found in books: Collins, The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature (2016) 175 | 6.7. Then shall I arise in joy, And will bless the Most High because of his marvellous works, [Because God hath taken a body and eaten with men and saved men]. |
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| 27. Anon., Testament of Judah, 21.2, 25.1 (2nd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Collins, The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature (2016) 173, 174 |
| 28. Dead Sea Scrolls, War Scroll, 11.7 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Collins, The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature (2016) 205 |
| 29. Dead Sea Scrolls, 4Q174 (The Florilegium) 195, 199, 339, 1.11-1.12 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •psalms of solomon, qumran •psalms of solomon, two messiahs Found in books: Collins, The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature (2016) 203 |
| 30. Dead Sea Scrolls, 4Q383-91, 4Q383-91 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •psalms of solomon, son of god Found in books: Collins, The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature (2016) 181 |
| 31. Dead Sea Scrolls, 4Q558, 4Q558 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •psalms of solomon, qumran •psalms of solomon, two messiahs Found in books: Collins, The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature (2016) 205 |
| 32. Dead Sea Scrolls, Aramaic Levi Document, 4Q213-14 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •psalms of solomon, testaments of the twelve patriarchs Found in books: Collins, The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature (2016) 175 |
| 33. Dead Sea Scrolls, Messianic Rule, 2.11-2.22 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •psalms of solomon, qumran •psalms of solomon, two messiahs Found in books: Collins, The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature (2016) 202 |
| 34. Dead Sea Scrolls, Scroll of Blessings, 5.27 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •psalms of solomon, qumran Found in books: Collins, The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature (2016) 197 |
| 35. Dead Sea Scrolls, Serek Damascus Document, 1.11, 2.12, 6.1-6.11, 7.14-7.21 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •psalms of solomon, qumran •psalms of solomon, two messiahs Found in books: Collins, The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature (2016) 197, 202, 203, 204, 205, 206 |
36. Hebrew Bible, Daniel, 7.13, 11.36-11.39 (2nd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Collins, The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature (2016) 199, 327| 7.13. חָזֵה הֲוֵית בְּחֶזְוֵי לֵילְיָא וַאֲרוּ עִם־עֲנָנֵי שְׁמַיָּא כְּבַר אֱנָשׁ אָתֵה הֲוָה וְעַד־עַתִּיק יוֹמַיָּא מְטָה וּקְדָמוֹהִי הַקְרְבוּהִי׃ 11.36. וְעָשָׂה כִרְצוֹנוֹ הַמֶּלֶךְ וְיִתְרוֹמֵם וְיִתְגַּדֵּל עַל־כָּל־אֵל וְעַל אֵל אֵלִים יְדַבֵּר נִפְלָאוֹת וְהִצְלִיחַ עַד־כָּלָה זַעַם כִּי נֶחֱרָצָה נֶעֱשָׂתָה׃ 11.37. וְעַל־אֱלֹהֵי אֲבֹתָיו לֹא יָבִין וְעַל־חֶמְדַּת נָשִׁים וְעַל־כָּל־אֱלוֹהַּ לֹא יָבִין כִּי עַל־כֹּל יִתְגַּדָּל׃ 11.38. וְלֶאֱלֹהַּ מָעֻזִּים עַל־כַּנּוֹ יְכַבֵּד וְלֶאֱלוֹהַּ אֲשֶׁר לֹא־יְדָעֻהוּ אֲבֹתָיו יְכַבֵּד בְּזָהָב וּבְכֶסֶף וּבְאֶבֶן יְקָרָה וּבַחֲמֻדוֹת׃ 11.39. וְעָשָׂה לְמִבְצְרֵי מָעֻזִּים עִם־אֱלוֹהַּ נֵכָר אֲשֶׁר הכיר [יַכִּיר] יַרְבֶּה כָבוֹד וְהִמְשִׁילָם בָּרַבִּים וַאֲדָמָה יְחַלֵּק בִּמְחִיר׃ | 7.13. I saw in the night visions, And, behold, there came with the clouds of heaven One like unto a son of man, And he came even to the Ancient of days, And he was brought near before Him. 11.36. And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak strange things against the God of gods; and he shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished; for that which is determined shall be done. 11.37. Neither shall he regard the gods of his fathers; and neither the desire of women, nor any god, shall he regard; for he shall magnify himself above all. 11.38. But in his place shall he honour the god of strongholds; and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and costly things. . 11.39. And he shall deal with the strongest fortresses with the help of a foreign god; whom he shall acknowledge, shall increase glory; and he shall cause them to rule over many, and shall divide the land for a price. |
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37. Anon., Sibylline Oracles, 5 (1st cent. BCE - 5th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •psalms of solomon Found in books: Salvesen et al., Israel in Egypt: The Land of Egypt as Concept and Reality for Jews in Antiquity and the Early Medieval Period (2020) 361 | 5. ,BUT come, now, hear of me the mournful time,of sons of Latium. And first of all,,After the kings of Egypt were destroyed,And the like earth had downwards borne them all,,5 And after Pella's townsman, under whom,The whole East and the rich West were cast down,,whom Babylon dishonored, and stretched out,For Philip a dead body (not of Zeus,,of Ammon not true things were prophesied),,10 And after that one of the race and blood,of king Assaracus, who came from Troy,,Even he who cleft the violence of fire,,And after many lords, and after men,To Ares dear, and after the young babes,,15 The children of the beast that feeds on sheep,,The very first lord shall be, who shall sum,Twice ten with the first letter of his name;,In wars exceeding powerful shall he be;,And he shall have the initial sign of ten;,20 And in like manner after him to reign,Is one who has the alphabet's first letter;,Before him Thrace and Sicily shall crouch,,Then Memphis, Memphis cast headlong to earth,By reason of the cowardice of rulers,25 And of a woman unenslaved who falls,Upon the wave. And laws will he ordain,For peoples and put all things under him;,But after a long time shall he transmit,His power unto another, who shall have,30 Three hundred for his first initial sign,,And of a river the beloved name,,And the Persians he shall rule and Babylon;,And then shall he smite Medians with his spear.,Then shall one rule who has the initial sign,35 of the number three. And then shall be a lord,Who shall for first initial have twice ten;,And he shall come to Ocean's utmost water,And by Ausonia cleave the refluent tide.,And one whose mark is fifty shall be lord,,40 A dreadful serpent breathing grievous war,,Who sometime stretching forth his hands shall make,An end of his own race and stir all things,,Acting the athlete, driving chariots,,Putting to death and daring countless things;,45 And he shall cleave the mountain of two seas,And sprinkle it with gore; but out of sight,Shall also vanish the destructive man;,Then, making himself equal unto God,,Shall he return; but God will prove him naught.,50 And after him shall three kings be destroyed,By one another. Then a great destroyer,of pious men shall come, whom seven times ten,Shall point out clearly. But from him a son,,Whom the first letter of three hundred proves,,55 Shall take the power. And after him shall be,A ruler, of the initial sign of four,,A life-destroyer. Then a reverend man,of the number fifty. Next, succeeding him,Who has the first mark of the initial sign,60 Three hundred, shall a Celtic mountaineer,,Into the strife of battle pressing on,,Escape not fate unseemly, but shall be,Worn weary unto death; him foreign dust,,But dust that of Nemea's flower has name,,65 Shall hide a corpse. And after him shall rule,Another man, with silver helmet decked;,And unto him shall be the name of a sea;,And he shall be a man the best of all,And in all things discreet. And upon thee,,70 Thou best of all, above all, dark-haired one,,And upon thy shoots shall be all these days.,After him three shall rule; but the third one,Shall at a late time hold the royal power.,Worn out am I, thrice-miserable one,,75 Sister of Isis, to lay up in heart,An evil message, and an inspired song,of oracles. First Mænades shall dart,Around thy much-lamented temple's steps,,And thou shalt be in evil hands that day,80 When the Nile some time shall fill the whole land,of Egypt even to sixteen cubits deep;,It shall wash all the land, and water it,For mortals; and the pleasure of the land,Shall be still and the glory of her face.,85 Memphis, thou most shalt over Egypt wail;,For of old ruling mightily the land,Thou shalt become poor, so that out of heaven,The Thunderer shall himself with great voice cry:,“O mighty Memphis, who didst boast of old,90 O'er craven mortals greatly, thou shalt wail,Full of pain and all-hapless, so that thou,Thyself shalt the eternal God perceive,Immortal in the clouds. Where among men,Is now thy mighty pride? Because thou didst,95 Against my God-anointed children rave,,And didst urge evil forward on good men,,Thou shalt for such things suffer penalty,In some like manner. No more openly,For thee shall there be right among the blessed;,100 Fallen from the stars, thou shalt not rise to heaven.”,Now these things unto Egypt God bade me,Speak out for the last time, when men shall be,Utterly evil. But they labor hard,,Evil men evil things awaiting, wrath,105 of the immortal Thunderer in heaven,,Worshiping stones and beasts instead of God,,And also fearing many things besides,Which have no speech, nor mind, nor power to hear;,Which things it is not right for me to mention,,110 Each one an idol, formed by mortal hands;,of their own labors and presumptuous thoughts,Did men receive gods made of wood and stone,And brass, and gold and silver, foolish too,,Without life and dumb, molten in the fire,115 They made them, vainly trusting such things. . . .,Thmois and Xois are in sore distress,,And smitten is the hall of Heracles,And Zeus and Hermes (king). And as for thee,,O Alexandria, famed nourisher,120 (of cities) war shall not leave, nor (plague) . . .,For thy pride thou shalt pay as many things,As thou before didst. Silent shalt thou be,A long age, and the day of thy return . . .,. . . . . . .,No more for thee shall flow luxurious drink . . .,. . . . . . .,12 5 For there shall come a Persian on thy dale,,And like hail shall he all the land destroy,,And artful men, with blood and corpses. . . .,By sacred altars one of barbarous mind,,Strong, full of blood and raging senselessly,,130 With countless numbers rushing to destruction.,And then shalt thou, in cities very rich,,Be very weary. Falling on the earth,All Asia shall wail on account of gifts,Crowning her head with which she was by thee,135 Delighted. But, as he himself obtained,The Persian land by lot, he shall make war,And killing every man destroy all life,,So that there shall remain for wretched mortals,A third part. But with nimble leap shall he,140 Himself speed from the West, and all the land,Besiege and waste. But when he shall possess,The height of power and odious reverence,,He shall come, wishing to destroy the city,Even of the blessed. And a certain king,145 Sent forth from God against him shall destroy,All mighty kings and bravest men. And thus,Shall judgement by the Immortal come to men.,Alas, alas for thee, unhappy heart!,Why dost thou move me to declare these things,,150 The painful rule of Egypt over many?,Go to the East, to races of the Persians,Who lack in understanding, and show them,That which is now and that which is to be.,The river of Euphrates shall bring on,155 A deluge, and it shall destroy the Persians,,Iberians and Babylonians,And the Massagetæ that relish war,And trust in bows. All Asia fire-ablaze,Shall to the isles beam brightly. Pergamos,,160 Revered of old, shall perish from its base,,And Pitane among men shall appear,All-desolate. All Lesbos shall sink deep,Into the deep, and thus shall be destroyed.,Smyrna, whirled down her cliffs, shall wail aloud,,165 She that was once revered and given a name,Shall perish utterly. Bithynians,Shall over their own country, then reduced,To ashes, wail, and o'er great Syria,,And o'er Phœnicia that bas many tribes.,170 Alas, alas for thee, O Lycia;,How many evils does the sea contrive,Against thee, mounting up of its own will,Upon the painful land! And it shall dash,With evil earthquake and with bitter streams,175 On the rough Lycian land that once breathed perfume.,And there shall be for Phrygia fearful wrath,Because of sorrow for which Rhea came,,Mother of Zeus, and there continued long.,The sea shall overthrow the Centaur race,190 And barbarous nation, and beneath the earth,Shall tear away the Lapithæan land.,The river of deep eddies and deep flow,,Peneus, shall destroy Thessalian land,,Snatching men from the earth. Eridanus,185 (Pretending once to bear the forms, of beasts).,Hellas thrice wretched shall the poets weep,,When one from Italy shall smite the neck,of the isthmus, mighty king of mighty Rome,,A man made equal to God, whom, they say,,190 Zeus himself and the august Hera bore,He, courting by his voice all-musical,Applause for his sweet Songs, shall put to death,With his own wretched mother many men.,From Babylon shall flee the fearful lord,195 And shameless whom all mortals and best men,Abhor; for he slew many and laid hands,Upon the womb; against his wives he sinned,And of men stained with blood had he been formed.,And he shall come to monarchs of the Medes,200 And Persians, first whom he loved and to whom,He brought renown, while with those wicked men,He lurked against a nation not desired,And on the temple made by God he seized,And citizens and people going in,,205 of whom I justly sang the praise, he burned;,For when this man appeared the whole creation,Was shaken and kings perished–and yet power,Remained among them, and they quite destroyed,The mighty city and the righteous people.,210 But when the fourth year a great star shall shine,,Which alone shall the whole earth overpower,Because of honor, which was first assigned,To lord Poseidon; then a great star shall come,From heaven into the dreadful sea and burn,215 The vasty deep, and Babylon itself,,And the land of Italy, because, of which,There perished many holy faithful men,Among the Hebrews and a people true.,Thou shalt be among evil mortals made,220 To suffer evils, but thou shalt remain,All-desolate whole ages by thyself,Hating thy soil; for thou didst have desire,For sorcery, adulteries were with thee,And lawless carnal intercourse with boys,,225 Thou evil city, womanish, unjust,,Ill-fated above all. Alas, alas!,Thou city of the Latin land, unclean,In all things, Mænad having joy in snakes,,Over thy banks a widow shalt thou sit,230 And the river Tiber shall lament for thee,,His consort thee, who hast a blood-stained heart,And impious soul. Didst thou not understand,What God can do, and what he doth devise?,But thou saidst, “I'm alone, and me no one,235 Shall sack.” But now shall God, who ever is,,Thee and all thine destroy, and in that land,No longer shall thy ensign yet remain,,As of old, when the mighty God received,Thy honors. Stay, O lawless one, alone,,240 And mixed with burning fire inhabit thou,In Hades the Tartarean lawless land.,And now again, O Egypt, I bewail,Thy blind delusion; Memphis, first in toils,,Thou shalt be filled up with the dead; in thee,245 The pyramids shall speak a ruthless sound.,O Python, who wast justly called of old,The double city, be for ages silent,,So that thou mayest cease from wickedness.,Reckless in evils, treasury of toils,,250 Much-wailing Mænad, suffering, dire ills,,Much-weeping, thou a widow shalt remain,Through all time. Thou didst full of years become,While thou alone wast ruling o'er the world;,But when the white dress Barea round herself,255 Shall put on over that which is defiled,,Would that I neither were nor had been born,O Thebes, where is thy great strength? A fierce man,Shall slay the people; but thou, wretched one,,Grasping thy dusky dress shalt wail alone,,260 And thou shalt make atonement for all things,Which thou aforetime with a shameless soul,Didst perpetrate. They also shall behold,A mourning on account of lawless deeds.,And a mighty man of the Ethiopians,265 Shall overthrow Syene; by their might,Shall swarthy Indians occupy Teucheira.,Pentapolis, a man of mighty, strength,Shall burn thee whole. All-tearful Libya,,Who shall explain thy follies? And Cyrene,,270 of mortals who shall pitiably weep,For thee? Thou shalt not even to the time,of thy destruction cease thy hateful wail.,Among the Britons and among the Gauls,,Rich in gold, Ocean shall be roaring loud,275 Filled with much blood; for evil things,Did they unto God's children, when a king,of the Sidonians, a Phœnician, led,A mighty Gallic host from Syria;,And he shall slaughter thee, thyself, Ravenna,,280 And unto slaughter shall he lead the way.,O Indians and great-hearted Ethiops,,Together fear; for when with these the course,of Capricorn and Taurus in the Twins,Shall wind about the middle of the heaven,,285 Virgo then rising, and about his front,Fastening a belt the sun shall lead all heaven,,There shall be moving downwards to the earth,A mighty conflagration high in air,,And a new nature in the warlike stars,,290 'so that the whole land of the Ethiops,Shall perish in the midst of fire and groans.,And weep thou, Corinth, the destruction sad,Which is ill thee; for when with pliant threads,The Fates three sisters, spinning shall aloft,295 Lead him who flees by guile against the voice,of the isthmus, until all shall look at him,Who once cut out the rock with ductile brass,,He also shall destroy and smite thy land,,As it hath been appointed. For to him,300 God gave strength to accomplish that which could,No earlier of all the kings together.,And first with sickle cleaving off the roots,From three heads he shall give food in excess,To others, so that kings unclean shall eat,305 The flesh of parents. For unto all men,Slaughter and terrors are laid up in store,because of the great city and just people,Saved through all time, whom Providence held high.,O thou unstable one and ill-advised,,310 By evil fates surrounded, for mankind,Both a beginning and great end of toil,–,of suffering creation and of part,Restored again,–thou leader insolent,of evils, and for men a great curse, who,115 of mortals wished for thee? Who has not been,Embittered from within? Cast down ill thee,A king his honored life lost. Evilly,Hast thou disposed all things and washed away,All that is fair, and by thee have been changed,320 The world's fair folds. In strife with us perhaps,Thou hast brought forward these unstable things;,And how dost thou say, “I will thee persuade,”,And “If in any thing thou blame me, speak?”,There was once among men the sun's bright light,325 The prophets' common ray being spread abroad;,Speech dripping honey, fair drink for all men,,Appeared and grew, and day arose on all.,Because of this, thou narrow-minded one,Leader of greatest evils, both a sword,330 And grief shall come in that day. For mankind,Both a beginning and great end of toil,–,of suffering creation and of part,Restored again,–hear, O thou curse of men,,The bitter oracle intolerable.,335 But when the Persian land shall keep away,From war and plague and groaning, in that day,A race divine of blessed heavenly Jews,Shall offer prayer, who shall dwell round about,God's city in mid portions of the land,,340 And even as far as Joppa building round,A great wall they shall carry it aloft,Unto the gloomy clouds. No more shall trump,Sound battle–din nor by a foe's mad hands,Shall they be cut off; but they shall set up,345 Their trophies for an age of evil men.,And one shall come again from heaven, a man,Preeminent, whose hands on fruitful tree,By far the noblest of the Hebrews stretched,,Who at one time did make the sun stand still,350 When he spoke with fair word and holy lips,,No longer vex thy soul within thy breast,By reason of the sword, rich child of God,,Flower longed for by him only, goodly light,And noble branch, a scion much beloved,,355 Pleasant Judea, city beautiful,,Inspired by hymns. No more shall unclean foot,of Greeks keep revel round about thy land,,Who held within their breast a lawless mind;,But thee shall glorious children honor much,360 [And be expert in songs and holy tongues],,With sacrifices of all kinds and prayers,Honored of God. All who endure the toils,of small affliction and the just shall have,More that is altogether beautiful;,365 But the wicked, who to heaven sent lawless speech,,Shall cease their speaking one against another,,And hide themselves until the world be changed.,And there shall be a rain of gleaming fire,From the clouds; and no more shall mortals reap,370 The fair corn from the earth; all things unsown,And unplowed, until mortal men shall know,The Lord of all things, the immortal God,Always existing, and no more revere,Mortal things, neither dogs nor vultures' nests,,375 And what things Egypt taught to magnify,With dumb months and dull lips. But all these things,The holy land of the only pious men,Shall bring forth, from the honey-dripping rock,A stream and from a spring ambrosial milk,380 Shall flow for all the just; for in one God,,One Father, who alone is glorious,,Having great piety and faith they hoped.,But why does the wise mind grant me these things?,And now thee, wretched Asia, piteously,385 I mourn and the race of Ionians,And Carians and Lydians rich in gold.,Alas, alas for thee, O Sardis; and alas,For Trallis much beloved; alas, alas,,Laodicea, city beautiful;,390 Thus shalt thou be by earthquakes overthrown,And ruined, and be also changed to dust.,And to Asia gloomy. . . .,Artremis' temple fixed at Ephesus . . .,By chasms, and earthquakes come headlong down,395 Sometime into the dreadful sea, is storms,Overwhelm ships. And up-turned Ephesus,Shall wail aloud, lament beside her banks,,And for her temple search which is no more.,And then incensed shall God the imperishable,,400 Who dwells on high, hurl thunderbolts from heaven,Down on the head of him that is impure.,And in the place of winter there shall be,In that day summer. And to mortal men,Shall then be great woe; for the Thunderer,405 Shall utterly destroy all shameless men,And with his thunders and with lightning-flames,And blazing thunderbolts men of ill-will,,And thus shall he destroy the impious ones,,So that there shall remain upon the earth,410 Dead bodies more in number than the sand.,For Smyrna also, weeping her Lycurgus,,Shall come unto the gates of Ephesus,And she herself shall perish even more.,And foolish Cyme with her inspired streams,415 Cast down by hands of godless men unjust,And lawless, shall to heaven not so much,As a word utter; but she shall remain,Dead in Cymæan streams. And then shall they,Together weep, awaiting evil things.,420 Cyme's rough populace and shameless tribe,,Having a sign, shall know for what they toiled.,And then, when they shall have bewailed their land,Reduced to ashes, by Eridanus,Shall Lesbos be forever overthrown.,425 Alas, Corcyra, city beautiful,,Alas for thee, cease from thy revelry.,Thou also, Hierapolis, sole land,With riches mixed, what thou hast longed to have,Thou shalt have, even a land of many tears,,430 Since thou wast angry towards a land beside,Thermodon's streams. Rock-clinging Tripolis,,Beside the waters of Mæander, thee,Shall by the nightly surges under shore,God's wrath and foresight utterly destroy.,435 Take me not, willing, to the neighboring land,of Phœbus; sometime shall a thunderbolt,Dainty Miletus from above destroy,,Because she seized on Phœbus' crafty song,And the wise care and prudent plan of men.,440 Father of all, be gracious to the land,of Judah, well fed, fruit-abounding, great,,In order that thy judgments we may see.,For thou, O God, in kindness didst regard,This land first that it might appear to be,445 Thy gracious gift unto all mortal men,And to hold fast what God put in their charge.,The works thrice wretched of the Thracians,I yearn to see, and wall between two seas,Trailed in the dust along beneath the mist,,450 Even like a river for the swimming fish.,O wretched Hellespont, sometime a child,of the Assyrians shall throw a yoke,Across thee; battle of the Thracians comes,And shall despoil thy strength. And there shall rule,455 Over the land of Macedonia,A king of Egypt, and a barbarous clime,Shall waste the strength of captains. Lydians,,And the Galatians, and Pamphylians,With the Pisidians, all equipped for war,460 Shall in a mass bring evil strife to pass.,Thrice wretched Italy, then shalt remain,All-desolate, unwept, in blooming land,By deadly sting to perish utterly.,And sometime high in the broad heaven above,465 Like thunder-roaring shall God's voice be heard.,And the unwasting flames of the sun himself,Shall be no more, nor shall the brilliant light,of the moon again be in the latest time,,When God shall bc the ruler. And dark gloom,470 Shall be o'er all the earth, and blinded men,And evil beasts and woe; that day shall be,A long time, so that men shall see that God,Himself is Lord, the overseer of all,In front of heaven. And then will he himself,475 Not pity hostile men, who sacrifice,Their herds of lambs and sheep and calves and goats,And bellowing golden-horned bulls, offering them,To lifeless Hermæ and to gods of stone.,But let the law of wisdom be your guide,480 And the glory of the righteous; lest sometime,The imperishable God incensed destroy,Each race of men and shameless tribe of life,,It doth behoove them faithfully to love,The Father, the wise God who ever is.,485 In the last time, at the turning of the moon,,There shall be raging through the world a war,And carried on with cunning, and in guile.,And from the limits of the earth shall come,Fleeing and pondering sharp things in his mind,,490 A matricidal man who every land,Shall overpower and over all things rule,,And see all things more wisely than all men;,And that for whose sake he himself was slain,Shall he seize forthwith. And he shall destroy,495 Many men and great tyrants and shall burn,All of them, as none other ever did,,And he shall raise up them that are afraid,For emulation's sake. And from the West,Much war shall come to men, and blood shall flow,500 Down hill till it becomes deep-eddying streams.,And in the plains of Macedonia,Shall wrath distil and give help from the West,,But to the king destruction. And a wind,of winter then shall blow upon the earth,,505 And the plain be filled with evil war again.,For fire shall rain down from the heavenly plains,On mortals, and therewith blood, water, flash,of lightning, murky darkness, night in heaven,,And waste in war and o'er the slaughter mist,,510 And these together shall destroy all kings,And noblest men. Thus shall be made to cease,Then the destruction pitiable of war.,And no more shall one fight with swords or iron,Or even darts, which things shall not again,515 Be lawful. But wise people shall have peace,,Who were left, having made proof of wickedness,,That they might at the last be filled with joy.,Ye matricides, leave off your impudence,And evil-working boldness, who of old,520 provided lawlessly lewd couch with boys,,And placed as harlots maidens pure before,In brothels by assault and punishment,And by much-laboring indecency.,For in thee mother with her child did hold,525 Unlawful intercourse, and daughter was,With her own father wedded as a bride;,And in thee kings have their ill-fated mouth,Polluted, and in thee have wicked men,Found couch with cattle. Be in silence hushed,,530 Thou wicked city all-bewailed, possessed,of revelry; for by thee virgin maids,Shall care no longer for the fire divine,of sacred wood that fondly nourisheth;,Before thee was a much-loved house of old,535 Extinguished, when I saw the second house,Cast headlong down and overwhelmed with fire,By an unholy hand, house ever flourishing,,God's watchful temple, brought forth of his saints,And being always indestructible,,540 By the soul hoped for and the body itself.,For not without the rites of burial,Shall one praise God out of the unseen earth,,Nor did wise workman make a stone by them,,Nor had he fear of gold, cheat of the world,545 And of souls, but the mighty Father, God,of all things God-inspired, did he revere,With holy offerings and fair hecatombs.,But now an unseen and unholy king,With multitude great and with men renowned,550 Rose into power and cast his dwelling down,And let it go unbuilt. But he himself,When he set foot on the immortal land,Destroyed the ground. And such a sign no more,Was wrought upon men, so that it appeared,555 That others the great city should destroy.,For there came from the heavenly plains a man,,One blessed, with a scepter in his hand,,Which God gave him, and he ruled all things well,,And unto all the good did he restore,560 The riches which the earlier men had seized.,And many cities with much fire he took,From their foundations, and he set on fire,The towns of mortals who before did evil,,And he did make that city, which God loved,,565 More radiant than stars and sun and moon,,And he set order, and a holy house,Incarnate made, pure, very fair, and formed,In many stades a great and boundless tower,Touching the clouds themselves and seen by all,,570 So that all holy and all righteous men,Might see the glory of the eternal God,,A sight that has been longed for. Rising sun,And setting day hymned forth the praise of God.,For there are then no longer fearful things,575 For wretched mortals, nor adulteries,And lawless love of boys, nor homicide,Nor tumult, but a righteous strife in all.,It is the last time of the saints when God,Accomplisheth these things, high Thunderer,,580 Founder of temple most magnificent.,Alas, alas for thee, O Babylon,,For golden throne and golden sandal famed,,Kingdom of many years and of the world,Sole ruler, who wast great in olden time,585 And city of all cities, thou no more,Shalt lie in golden mountains and by streams,of the Euphrates; thou shalt be laid low,By rout of earthquake. But the Parthians dire,Caused thee to stiffer all things. Hold thou fast,590 Thy unknown speech, impure Chaldean race;,Ask not nor be concerned how thou shalt lead,The Persians or how thou shalt rule the Medes;,For on account of thy supremacy,,Which thou hadst, sending hostages to Rome,595 And serving Asia, thou that formerly,Didst also think thyself a queen, shalt come,Unto the judgment of antagonists,,Because of whom thou hast suffered baneful things;,And thou shalt give instead of crooked words,600 Bitter vexation to the enemies,,And in the last time shall the sea be dry,And ships no longer sail to Italy,,And Asia the great then, all-hapless, shall,Be water, and then Crete shall be a plain.,605 And Cyprus shall endure great misery,And Paphos shall bewail a dreadful fate,,So that even Salamis, great city, shall,Be seen to undergo great misery;,And now the dry land shall be fruitless sand,610 Upon the shore. And locusts not a few,Shall utterly destroy the Cyprian land.,Looking at Tyre, doomed mortals, ye shall weep.,Phœnicia, dreadful wrath remains for thee,,Until thou to a worthless ruin fall,,615 So that even Sirens truly may lament.,In the fifth generation, when the ruin,of Egypt has ceased, it shall come to pass,That shameless kings shall be together joined,,And races of Pamphylians shall encamp,620 In Egypt, and in Macedonia,And in Asia and among the Libyans,Shall in the dust be a world-maddening war,Exceeding bloody, which the king of Rome,And rulers of the West shall make to cease.,625 When wintry storm shall drop down like the snow,,While frozen are great river and vast lakes,,Forthwith a barbarous race shall make their way,Into the Asian land and shall destroy,The race of dreadful Thracians, hard to quell.,630 And then shall mortals feeding lawlessly,Devour their parents, being by hunger worn,,And shall gulp down the entrails. And wild beasts,Shall devour from all houses table-food,,And they and birds all mortals shall devour.,635 The ocean with dead bodies shall be filled,From the river and be red with flesh and blood,of the foolish ones. Then thus a feebleness,Shall be on earth, so that of men the number,May be seen and the measure of the women,,640 And the dire race shall wail for myriad things,At last when the sun sets to rise no more,,But to remain submerged in Ocean's waves;,For it beheld the wickedness unclean,of many mortals. And a moonless night,615 Shall be a fame around the mighty heaven,,And no small mist shall hide the world's ravines,A second time; then afterwards God's light,Shall guide the good men, who sang praise to God.,Isis, thrice wretched goddess, thou alone,650 Shalt on the waters of the Nile remain,,A Mænad out of order on the sands,of Acheron, and no longer shall remain,Remembrance of thee over all the earth.,And also thou, Sarapis, who art placed,655 On many glistening stones, a ruin vast,Shalt thou in thrice unhappy Egypt lie.,But those whom love of Egypt led to thee,Shall all lament thee badly; but who put,Imperishable reason in their breast,,660 And who praised God, shall know thee to be naught.,And sometime shall a linen-vested man,,A priest, say: “Come, let us raise up of God,A beautiful true temple; come, let us,The fearful law of our forefathers change,,665 Because of which they did not understand,That they were unto gods of stone and clay,Making processions and religions rites.,Let us turn our souls, giving praise to God,The imperishable, who himself is Father,,670 The everlasting One, the Lord of all,,The true One, the King, life-sustaining Father,,The mighty God existing evermore.”,And then shall there a great pure temple be,In Egypt, and the people made by God,675 Shall into it their sacrifices bring.,And to them God shall give life incorrupt.,But when the Ethiopians, forsaking,The shameless tribes of the Triballians,,Shall cultivate their Egypt, they will then,680 Begin their baseness, that the later things,May all occur. For they shall overthrow,The mighty temple of the Egyptian land;,And God shall rain down on the earth dire wrath,Among them, so that all the wicked ones,685 And all without sense perish. And no more,Shall there be any sparing in that land,,Because they did not keep that which God gave.,I saw the threatening of the shining Sun,Among the stars, and in the lightning flash,690 The dire wrath of the Moon; the stars travailed,With battle; and God gave them up to light.,For long fire-flames rebelled against the Sun;,Lucifer treading upon Leo's back,Began the fight; and the Moon's double horn,695 Changed its shape; Capricorn smote Taurus' neck;,And Taurus took away from Capricorn,Returning day. Orion would no more,Abide his yoke; the lot of Gemini,Did Virgo change in Aries; no more shone,700 The Pleiads; Draco disavowed his zone;,Down into Leo's girdle Pisces went.,Cancer remained not, for he feared Orion;,Scorpio down on dire Leo backwards moved;,And from the Sun's flame Sirius slipped away;,705 And the strength of the mighty Shining One,Aquarius kindled. Uranus himself,Was roused, until he shook the warring ones;,And being incensed he hurled them down on earth.,Then swiftly smitten down upon the baths,710 of Ocean they set all the earth on fire;,And the high heaven remained without a star. |
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38. Anon., Epistle of Barnabas, 19-21, 18 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Collins, The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature (2016) 173 | 18. But let us pass on to another lesson and teaching. There are two ways of teaching and of power, the one of light and the other of darkness; and there is a great difference between the two ways. For on the one are stationed the light giving angels of God, on the other the angels of Satan.,And the one is the Lord from all eternity and unto all eternity, whereas the other is Lord of the season of iniquity that now is. 18. , , |
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39. New Testament, Matthew, 8.2, 11.2, 19.28, 24.27, 24.37-24.39, 24.43-24.44, 25.31 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •psalms of solomon, son of man Found in books: Collins, The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature (2016) 238, 327, 329, 330| 8.2. Καὶ ἰδοὺ λεπρὸς προσελθὼν προσεκύνει αὐτῷ λέγων Κύριε, ἐὰν θέλῃς δύνασαί με καθαρίσαι. 11.2. Ὁ δὲ Ἰωάνης ἀκούσας ἐν τῷ δεσμωτηρίῳ τὰ ἔργα τοῦ χριστοῦ πέμψας διὰ τῶν μαθητῶν αὐτοῦ 19.28. ὁ δὲ Ἰησοῦς εἶπεν αὐτοῖς Ἀμὴν λέγω ὑμῖν ὅτι ὑμεῖς οἱ ἀκολουθήσαντές μοι ἐν τῇ παλινγενεσίᾳ, ὅταν καθίσῃ ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἐπὶ θρόνου δόξης αὐτοῦ, καθήσεσθε καὶ ὑμεῖς ἐπὶ δώδεκα θρόνους κρίνοντες τὰς δώδεκα φυλὰς τοῦ Ἰσραήλ. 24.27. ὥσπερ γὰρ ἡ ἀστραπὴ ἐξέρχεται ἀπὸ ἀνατολῶν καὶ φαίνεται ἕως δυσμῶν, οὕτως ἔσται ἡ παρουσία τοῦ υἱοῦ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου· 24.37. ὥσπερ γὰρ αἱ ἡμέραι τοῦ Νῶε, οὕτως ἔσται ἡ παρουσία τοῦ υἱοῦ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου· 24.38. ὡς γὰρ ἦσαν ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις [ἐκείναις] ταῖς πρὸ τοῦ κατακλυσμοῦ τρώγοντες καὶ πίνοντες, γαμοῦντες καὶ γαμίζοντες, ἄχρι ἧς ἡμέρας εἰσῆλθεν Νῶε εἰς τὴν κιβωτόν, 24.39. καὶ οὐκ ἔγνωσαν ἕως ἦλθεν ὁ κατακλυσμὸς καὶ ἦρεν ἅπαντας, οὕτως ἔσται ἡ παρουσία τοῦ υἱοῦ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου. 24.43. ἐκεῖνο δὲ γινώσκετε ὅτι εἰ ᾔδει ὁ οἰκοδεσπότης ποίᾳ φυλακῇ ὁ κλέπτης ἔρχεται, ἐγρηγόρησεν ἂν καὶ οὐκ ἂν εἴασεν διορυχθῆναι τὴν οὶκίαν αὐτοῦ. 24.44. διὰ τοῦτο καὶ ὑμεῖς γίνεσθε ἕτοιμοι, ὅτι ᾗ οὐ δοκεῖτε ὥρᾳ ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἔρχεται. 25.31. Ὅταν δὲ ἔλθῃ ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἐν τῇ δόξῃ αὐτοῦ καὶ πάντες οἱ ἄγγελοι μετʼ αὐτοῦ, τότε καθίσει ἐπὶ θρόνου δόξης αὐτοῦ, | 8.2. Behold, a leper came to him and worshiped him, saying, "Lord, if you want to, you can make me clean." 11.2. Now when John heard in the prison the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples 19.28. Jesus said to them, "Most assuredly I tell you that you who have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of Man will sit on the throne of his glory, you also will sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. 24.27. For as the lightning comes forth from the east, and is seen even to the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. 24.37. "As the days of Noah were, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. 24.38. For as in those days which were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, 24.39. and they didn't know until the flood came, and took them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. 24.43. But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch of the night the thief was coming, he would have watched, and would not have allowed his house to be broken into. 24.44. Therefore also be ready, for in an hour that you don't expect, the Son of Man will come. 25.31. "But when the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory. |
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40. New Testament, Mark, 2.1, 2.27-2.28, 8.38, 13.24-13.26, 14.61-14.62 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Collins, The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature (2016) 328, 329| 2.1. Καὶ εἰσελθὼν πάλιν εἰς Καφαρναοὺμ διʼ ἡμερῶν ἠκούσθη ὅτι ἐν οἴκῳ ἐστίν· 2.27. καὶ ἔλεγεν αὐτοῖς Τὸ σάββατον διὰ τὸν ἄνθρωπον ἐγένετο καὶ οὐχ ὁ ἄνθρωπος διὰ τὸ σάββατον· 2.28. ὥστε κύριός ἐστιν ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου καὶ τοῦ σαββάτου. 8.38. ὃς γὰρ ἐὰν ἐπαισχυνθῇ με καὶ τοὺς ἐμοὺς λόγους ἐν τῇ γενεᾷ ταύτῃ τῇ μοιχαλίδι καὶ ἁμαρτωλῷ, καὶ ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἐπαισχυνθήσεται αὐτὸν ὅταν ἔλθῃ ἐν τῇ δόξῃ τοῦ πατρὸς αὐτοῦ μετὰ τῶν ἀγγέλων τῶν ἁγίων. 13.24. Ἀλλὰ ἐν ἐκείναις ταῖς ἡμέραις μετὰ τὴν θλίψιν ἐκείνην ὁ ἥλιος σκοτισθήσεται, καὶ ἡ σελήνη οὐ δώσει τὸ φέγγος αὐτῆς, 13.25. καὶ οἱ ἀστέρες ἔσονται ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ πίπτοντες, καὶ αἱ δυνάμεις αἱ ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς σαλευθήσονται. 13.26. καὶ τότε ὄψονται τὸν υἱὸν τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἐρχόμενον ἐν νεφέλαις μετὰ δυνάμεως πολλῆς καὶ δόξης· 14.61. ὁ δὲ ἐσιώπα καὶ οὐκ ἀπεκρίνατο οὐδέν. πάλιν ὁ ἀρχιερεὺς ἐπηρώτα αὐτὸν καὶ λέγει αὐτῷ Σὺ εἶ ὁ χριστὸς ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ εὐλογητοῦ; 14.62. ὁ δὲ Ἰησοῦς εἶπεν Ἐγώ εἰμι, καὶ ὄψεσθε τὸν υἱὸν τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἐκ δεξιῶν καθήμενον τῆς δυνάμεως καὶ ἐρχόμενον μετὰ τῶν νεφελῶν τοῦ οὐρανοῦ. | 2.1. When he entered again into Capernaum after some days, it was heard that he was in the house. 2.27. He said to them, "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. 2.28. Therefore the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath." 8.38. For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man also will be ashamed of him, when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels." 13.24. But in those days, after that oppression, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, 13.25. the stars will be falling from the sky, and the powers that are in the heavens will be shaken. 13.26. Then they will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory. 14.61. But he stayed quiet, and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him, "Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?" 14.62. Jesus said, "I AM. You will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming with the clouds of the sky." |
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41. New Testament, Luke, 1.32-1.33, 1.35, 9.58, 12.8-12.9, 17.23-17.24 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •psalms of solomon, qumran •psalms of solomon, son of god •psalms of solomon, two messiahs •psalms of solomon, son of man Found in books: Collins, The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature (2016) 199, 327, 329| 1.32. οὗτος ἔσται μέγας καὶ υἱὸς Ὑψίστου κληθήσεται, καὶ δώσει αὐτῷ Κύριος ὁ θεὸς τὸν θρόνον Δαυεὶδ τοῦ πατρὸς αὐτοῦ, 1.33. καὶ βασιλεύσει ἐπὶ τὸν οἶκον Ἰακὼβ εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας, καὶ τῆς βασιλείας αὐτοῦ οὐκ ἔσται τέλος. 1.35. καὶ ἀποκριθεὶς ὁ ἄγγελος εἶπεν αὐτῇ Πνεῦμα ἅγιον ἐπελεύσεται ἐπὶ σέ, καὶ δύναμις Ὑψίστου ἐπισκιάσει σοι· διὸ καὶ τὸ γεννώμενον ἅγιον κληθήσεται, υἱὸς θεοῦ· 9.58. καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ [ὁ] Ἰησοῦς Αἱ ἀλώπεκες φωλεοὺς ἔχουσιν καὶ τὰ πετεινὰ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ κατασκηνώσεις, ὁ δὲ υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου οὐκ ἔχει ποῦ τὴν κεφαλὴν κλίνῃ. 12.8. Λέγω δὲ ὑμῖν, πᾶς ὃς ἂν ὁμολογήσει ἐν ἐμοὶ ἔμπροσθεν τῶν ἀνθρώπων, καὶ ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ὁμολογήσει ἐν αὐτῷ ἔμπροσθεν τῶν ἀγγέλων τοῦ θεοῦ· 12.9. ὁ δὲ ἀρνησάμενός με ἐνώπιον τῶν ἀνθρώπων ἀπαρνηθήσεται ἐνώπιον τῶν ἀγγέλων τοῦ θεοῦ. 17.23. καὶ ἐροῦσιν ὑμῖν Ἰδοὺ ἐκεῖ ἤ Ἰδοὺ ὧδε· μὴ [ἀπέλθητε μηδὲ] διώξητε. 17.24. ὥσπερ γὰρ ἡ ἀστραπὴ ἀστράπτουσα ἐκ τῆς ὑπὸ τὸν οὐρανὸν εἰς τὴν ὑπʼ οὐρανὸν λάμπει, οὕτως ἔσται ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου . | 1.32. He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father, David, 1.33. and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever. There will be no end to his kingdom." 1.35. The angel answered her, "The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore also the holy one who is born from you will be called the Son of God. 9.58. Jesus said to him, "The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head." 12.8. "I tell you, everyone who confesses me before men, him will the Son of Man also confess before the angels of God; 12.9. but he who denies me in the presence of men will be denied in the presence of the angels of God. 17.23. They will tell you, 'Look, here!' or 'Look, there!' Don't go away, nor follow after them, 17.24. for as the lightning, when it flashes out of the one part under the sky, shines to the other part under the sky; so will the Son of Man be in his day. |
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42. New Testament, John, 14.12 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •psalms of solomon Found in books: Salvesen et al., Israel in Egypt: The Land of Egypt as Concept and Reality for Jews in Antiquity and the Early Medieval Period (2020) 361| 14.12. Ἀμὴν ἀμὴν λέγω ὑμῖν, ὁ πιστεύων εἰς ἐμὲ τὰ ἔργα ἃ ἐγὼ ποιῶ κἀκεῖνος ποιήσει, καὶ μείζονα τούτων ποιήσει, ὅτι ἐγὼ πρὸς τὸν πατέρα πορεύομαι· | 14.12. Most assuredly I tell you, he who believes in me, the works that I do, he will do also; and greater works than these will he do; because I am going to my Father. |
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43. New Testament, Apocalypse, 1.12-1.16, 5.6, 11.6, 19.1, 22.8-22.9 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Collins, The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature (2016) 206, 344| 1.12. Καὶ ἐπέστρεψα βλέπειν τὴν φωνὴν ἥτις ἐλάλει μετʼ ἐμοῦ· καὶ ἐπιστρέψας εἶδον ἑπτὰ λυχνίας χρυσᾶς, 1.13. καὶ ἐν μέσῳ τῶν λυχνιῶνὅμοιον υἱὸν ἀνθρώπου, ἐνδεδυμένον ποδήρηκαὶπεριεζωσμένονπρὸς τοῖς μαστοῖς ζώνην χρυσᾶν· 1.14. ἡ δὲκεφαλὴ αὐτοῦκαὶαἱ τρίχες λευκαὶ ὡς ἔριονλευκόν,ὡς χιών, καὶ οἱ ὀφθαλμοὶ αὐτοῦ ὡςφλὸξ πυρός, 1.15. καὶ οἱ πόδες αὐτοῦ ὅμοιοι χαλκολιβάνῳ, ὡς ἐν καμίνῳ πεπυρωμένης,καὶ ἡ φωνὴ αὐτοῦ ὡς φωνὴ ὑδάτων πολλῶν, 1.16. καὶ ἔχων ἐν τῇ δεξιᾷ χειρὶ αὐτοῦ ἀστέρας ἑπτά, καὶ ἐκ τοῦ στόματος αὐτοῦ ῥομφαία δίστομος ὀξεῖα ἐκπορευομένη, καὶ ἡ ὄψις αὐτοῦ ὡςὁ ἥλιοςφαίνειἐν τῇ δυνάμει αὐτοῦ. 5.6. Καὶ εἶδον ἐν μέσῳ τοῦ θρόνου καὶ τῶν τεσσάρων ζῴων καὶ ἐν μέσῳ τῶν πρεσβυτέρωνἀρνίονἑστηκὸς ὡςἐσφαγμένον,ἔχων κέρατα ἑπτὰ καὶὀφθαλμοὺς ἑπτά,οἵ εἰσιν τὰ [ἑπτὰ] πνεύματα τοῦ θεοῦ, ἀπεσταλμένοιεἰς πᾶσαν τὴν γῆν. 11.6. οὗτοι ἔχουσιν τὴν ἐξουσίαν κλεῖσαι τὸν οὐρανόν, ἵναμὴ ὑετὸς βρέχῃτὰς ἡμέρας τῆς προφητείας αὐτῶν, καὶ ἐξουσίαν ἔχουσιν ἐπὶτῶν ὑδάτων στρέφειναὐτὰεἰς αἷμακαὶπατάξαιτὴν γῆνἐν πάσῃ πληγῇὁσάκις ἐὰν θελήσωσιν. 19.1. Μετὰ ταῦτα ἤκουσα ὡς φωνὴν μεγάλην ὄχλου πολλοῦ ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ λεγόντων Ἁλληλουιά· ἡ σωτηρία καὶ ἡ δόξα καὶ ἡ δύναμις τοῦ θεοῦ ἡμῶν, 22.8. Κἀγὼ Ἰωάννης ὁ ἀκούων καὶ βλέπων ταῦτα. καὶ ὅτε ἤκουσα καὶ ἔβλεψα, ἔπεσα προσκυνῆσαι ἔμπροσθεν τῶν ποδῶν τοῦ ἀγγέλου τοῦ δεικνύοντός μοι ταῦτα. 22.9. καὶ λέγει μοι Ὅρα μή· σύνδουλός σού εἰμι καὶ τῶν ἀδελφῶν σου τῶν προφητῶν καὶ τῶν τηρούντων τοὺς λόγους τοῦ βιβλίου τούτου· τῷ θεῷ προσκύνησον. | 1.12. I turned to see the voice that spoke with me. Having turned, I saw seven golden lampstands. 1.13. And in the midst of the lampstands was one like a son of man, clothed with a robe reaching down to his feet, and with a golden sash around his chest. 1.14. His head and his hair were white as white wool, like snow. His eyes were like a flame of fire. 1.15. His feet were like burnished brass, as if it had been refined in a furnace. His voice was like the voice of many waters. 1.16. He had seven stars in his right hand. Out of his mouth proceeded a sharp two-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining at its brightest. 5.6. I saw in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, having seven horns, and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God, sent out into all the earth. 11.6. These have the power to shut up the sky, that it may not rain during the days of their prophecy. They have power over the waters, to turn them into blood, and to strike the earth with every plague, as often as they desire. 19.1. After these things I heard something like a loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying, "Hallelujah! Salvation, power, and glory belong to our God: 22.8. Now I, John, am the one who heard and saw these things. When I heard and saw, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel who had shown me these things. 22.9. He said to me, "See you don't do it! I am a fellow bondservant with you and with your brothers, the prophets, and with those who keep the words of this book. Worship God." |
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44. New Testament, Acts, 2.34-2.35, 7.56 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •psalms of solomon, son of man Found in books: Collins, The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature (2016) 328| 2.34. οὐ γὰρ Δαυεὶδ ἀνέβη εἰς τοὺς οὐρανούς, λέγει δὲ αὐτός 2.35. 7.56. καὶ εἶπεν Ἰδοὺ θεωρῶ τοὺς οὐρανοὺς διηνοιγμένους καὶ τὸν υἱὸν τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἐκ δεξιῶν ἑστῶτα τοῦ θεοῦ. | 2.34. For David didn't ascend into the heavens, but he says himself, 'The Lord said to my Lord, "Sit by my right hand, 2.35. Until I make your enemies the footstool of your feet."' 7.56. and said, "Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing on the right hand of God!" |
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45. Josephus Flavius, Jewish War, 2.258-2.259, 2.264, 6.286, 6.312 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •psalms of solomon Found in books: Salvesen et al., Israel in Egypt: The Land of Egypt as Concept and Reality for Jews in Antiquity and the Early Medieval Period (2020) 361| 2.258. Συνέστη δὲ πρὸς τούτοις στῖφος ἕτερον πονηρῶν χειρὶ μὲν καθαρώτερον, ταῖς γνώμαις δὲ ἀσεβέστερον, ὅπερ οὐδὲν ἧττον τῶν σφαγέων τὴν εὐδαιμονίαν τῆς πόλεως ἐλυμήνατο. 2.259. πλάνοι γὰρ ἄνθρωποι καὶ ἀπατεῶνες προσχήματι θειασμοῦ νεωτερισμοὺς καὶ μεταβολὰς πραγματευόμενοι δαιμονᾶν τὸ πλῆθος ἔπειθον καὶ προῆγον εἰς τὴν ἐρημίαν ὡς ἐκεῖ τοῦ θεοῦ δείξοντος αὐτοῖς σημεῖα ἐλευθερίας. 2.264. Κατεσταλμένων δὲ καὶ τούτων ὥσπερ ἐν νοσοῦντι σώματι πάλιν ἕτερον μέρος ἐφλέγμαινεν. οἱ γὰρ γόητες καὶ λῃστρικοὶ συναχθέντες πολλοὺς εἰς ἀπόστασιν ἐνῆγον καὶ πρὸς ἐλευθερίαν παρεκρότουν θάνατον ἐπιτιμῶντες τοῖς πειθαρχοῦσιν τῇ ̔Ρωμαίων ἡγεμονίᾳ καὶ πρὸς βίαν ἀφαιρήσεσθαι λέγοντες τοὺς ἑκουσίως δουλεύειν προαιρουμένους. 6.286. πολλοὶ δ' ἦσαν ἐγκάθετοι παρὰ τῶν τυράννων τότε πρὸς τὸν δῆμον προφῆται προσμένειν τὴν ἀπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ βοήθειαν καταγγέλλοντες, ὡς ἧττον αὐτομολοῖεν καὶ τοὺς ἐπάνω δέους καὶ φυλακῆς γενομένους ἐλπὶς παρακροτοίη. 6.312. τὸ δ' ἐπᾶραν αὐτοὺς μάλιστα πρὸς τὸν πόλεμον ἦν χρησμὸς ἀμφίβολος ὁμοίως ἐν τοῖς ἱεροῖς εὑρημένος γράμμασιν, ὡς κατὰ τὸν καιρὸν ἐκεῖνον ἀπὸ τῆς χώρας αὐτῶν τις ἄρξει τῆς οἰκουμένης. | 2.258. 4. There was also another body of wicked men gotten together, not so impure in their actions, but more wicked in their intentions, which laid waste the happy state of the city no less than did these murderers. 2.259. These were such men as deceived and deluded the people under pretense of Divine inspiration, but were for procuring innovations and changes of the government; and these prevailed with the multitude to act like madmen, and went before them into the wilderness, as pretending that God would there show them the signals of liberty. 2.264. 6. Now, when these were quieted, it happened, as it does in a diseased body, that another part was subject to an inflammation; for a company of deceivers and robbers got together, and persuaded the Jews to revolt, and exhorted them to assert their liberty, inflicting death on those that continued in obedience to the Roman government, and saying, that such as willingly chose slavery ought to be forced from such their desired inclinations; 6.286. Now, there was then a great number of false prophets suborned by the tyrants to impose on the people, who denounced this to them, that they should wait for deliverance from God; and this was in order to keep them from deserting, and that they might be buoyed up above fear and care by such hopes. 6.312. But now, what did most elevate them in undertaking this war, was an ambiguous oracle that was also found in their sacred writings, how, “about that time, one from their country should become governor of the habitable earth.” |
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46. New Testament, Galatians, 4.8-4.11 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •psalms of solomon Found in books: Salvesen et al., Israel in Egypt: The Land of Egypt as Concept and Reality for Jews in Antiquity and the Early Medieval Period (2020) 361| 4.8. Ἀλλὰ τότε μὲν οὐκ εἰδότες θεὸν ἐδουλεύσατε τοῖς φύσει μὴ οὖσι θεοῖς· 4.9. νῦν δὲ γνόντες θεόν, μᾶλλον δὲ γνωσθέντες ὑπὸ θεοῦ, πῶς ἐπιστρέφετε πάλιν ἐπὶ τὰ ἀσθενῆ καὶ πτωχὰ στοιχεῖα, οἷς πάλιν ἄνωθεν δουλεῦσαι θέλετε; 4.10. ἡμέρας παρατηρεῖσθε καὶ μῆνας καὶ καιροὺς καὶ ἐνιαυτούς. 4.11. φοβοῦμαι ὑμᾶς μή πως εἰκῇ κεκοπίακα εἰς ὑμᾶς. | 4.8. However at that time, not knowing God, youwere in bondage to those who by nature are not gods. 4.9. But now thatyou have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do youturn back again to the weak and miserable elements, to which you desireto be in bondage all over again? 4.10. You observe days, months,seasons, and years. 4.11. I am afraid for you, that I might havewasted my labor for you. |
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| 47. Corpus Hermeticum, Fragments, 3.35, 11.35 (2nd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •psalms of solomon, qumran •psalms of solomon, two messiahs Found in books: Collins, The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature (2016) 206 |
| 48. Ambrose, Enarrationes In Xii Paslmos, 8.2 (4th cent. CE - 4th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •psalms of solomon, testaments of the twelve patriarchs Found in books: Collins, The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature (2016) 173 |
49. Anon., 4 Ezra, 13 Tagged with subjects: •psalms of solomon, qumran •psalms of solomon, son of god •psalms of solomon, two messiahs Found in books: Collins, The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature (2016) 199 | 13. After seven days I dreamed a dream in the night;, and behold, a wind arose from the sea and stirred up all its waves., And I looked, and behold, this wind made something like the figure of a man come up out of the heart of the sea. And I looked, and behold, that man flew with the clouds of heaven; and wherever he turned his face to look, everything under his gaze trembled,, and whenever his voice issued from his mouth, all who heard his voice melted as wax melts when it feels the fire., After this I looked, and behold, an innumerable multitude of men were gathered together from the four winds of heaven to make war against the man who came up out of the sea., And I looked, and behold, he carved out for himself a great mountain, and flew up upon it. < br[7, After this I looked, and behold, all who had gathered together against him, to wage war with him, were much afraid, yet dared to fight., And behold, when he saw the onrush of the approaching multitude, he neither lifted his hand nor held a spear or any weapon of war;, but I saw only how he sent forth from his mouth as it were a stream of fire, and from his lips a flaming breath, and from his tongue he shot forth a storm of sparks., All these were mingled together, the stream of fire and the flaming breath and the great storm, and fell on the onrushing multitude which was prepared to fight, and burned them all up, so that suddenly nothing was seen of the innumerable multitude but only the dust of ashes and the smell of smoke. When I saw it, I was amazed., After this I saw the same man come down from the mountain and call to him another multitude which was peaceable., Then many people came to him, some of whom were joyful and some sorrowful; some of them were bound, and some were bringing others as offerings. Then in great fear I awoke; and I besought the Most High, and said,, "From the beginning thou hast shown thy servant these wonders, and hast deemed me worthy to have my prayer heard by thee;, now show me also the interpretation of this dream., For as I consider it in my mind, alas for those who will be left in those days! And still more, alas for those who are not left!, For those who are not left will be sad,, because they understand what is reserved for the last days, but cannot attain it., But alas for those also who are left, and for that very reason! For they shall see great dangers and much distress, as these dreams show., Yet it is better to come into these things, though incurring peril, than to pass from the world like a cloud, and not to see what shall happen in the last days." He answered me and said,, "I will tell you the interpretation of the vision, and I will also explain to you the things which you have mentioned., As for what you said about those who are left, this is the interpretation:, He who brings the peril at that time will himself protect those who fall into peril, who have works and have faith in the Almighty., Understand therefore that those who are left are more blessed than those who have died., This is the interpretation of the vision: As for your seeing a man come up from the heart of the sea,, this is he whom the Most High has been keeping for many ages, who will himself deliver his creation; and he will direct those who are left., And as for your seeing wind and fire and a storm coming out of his mouth,, and as for his not holding a spear or weapon of war, yet destroying the onrushing multitude which came to conquer him, this is the interpretation:, Behold, the days are coming when the Most High will deliver those who are on the earth., And bewilderment of mind shall come over those who dwell on the earth., And they shall plan to make war against one another, city against city, place against place, people against people, and kingdom against kingdom., And when these things come to pass and the signs occur which I showed you before, then my Son will be revealed, whom you saw as a man coming up from the sea., And when all the nations hear his voice, every man shall leave his own land and the warfare that they have against one another;, and an innumerable multitude shall be gathered together, as you saw, desiring to come and conquer him., But he shall stand on the top of Mount Zion., And Zion will come and be made manifest to all people, prepared and built, as you saw the mountain carved out without hands., And he, my Son, will reprove the assembled nations for their ungodliness (this was symbolized by the storm),, and will reproach them to their face with their evil thoughts and the torments with which they are to be tortured (which were symbolized by the flames), and will destroy them without effort by the law (which was symbolized by the fire)., And as for your seeing him gather to himself another multitude that was peaceable,, these are the ten tribes which were led away from their own land into captivity in the days of King Hoshea, whom Shalmaneser the king of the Assyrians led captive; he took them across the river, and they were taken into another land., But they formed this plan for themselves, that they would leave the multitude of the nations and go to a more distant region, where mankind had never lived,, that there at least they might keep their statutes which they had not kept in their own land., And they went in by the narrow passages of the Euphrates river., For at that time the Most High performed signs for them, and stopped the channels of the river until they had passed over., Through that region there was a long way to go, a journey of a year and a half; and that country is called Arzareth., "Then they dwelt there until the last times; and now, when they are about to come again,, the Most High will stop the channels of the river again, so that they may be able to pass over. Therefore you saw the multitude gathered together in peace., But those who are left of your people, who are found within my holy borders, shall be saved., Therefore when he destroys the multitude of the nations that are gathered together, he will defend the people who remain., And then he will show them very many wonders.", I said, "O sovereign Lord, explain this to me: Why did I see the man coming up from the heart of the sea?", He said to me, "Just as no one can explore or know what is in the depths of the sea, so no one on earth can see my Son or those who are with him, except in the time of his day., This is the interpretation of the dream which you saw. And you alone have been enlightened about this,, because you have forsaken your own ways and have applied yourself to mine, and have searched out my law;, for you have devoted your life to wisdom, and called understanding your mother., Therefore I have shown you this, for there is a reward laid up with the Most High. And after three more days I will tell you other things, and explain weighty and wondrous matters to you.", Then I arose and walked in the field, giving great glory and praise to the Most High because of his wonders, which he did from time to time,, and because he governs the times and whatever things come to pass in their seasons. And I stayed there three days. |
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| 50. Constantine, De Ceremoniis, 2.18, 11QMelchizedek Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Collins, The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature (2016) 206 |
| 52. Dead Sea Scrolls, 11Q18, , 4Q521 Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: nan nan |
| 53. Dead Sea Scrolls, 4Q158, 4Q364-397 (Reworked Pentateuch), 4QSe Tagged with subjects: •psalms of solomon, qumran •psalms of solomon, two messiahs Found in books: Collins, The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature (2016) 200 |
| 56. Dead Sea Scrolls, 4Q174 (Florilegium), 12.23-13.1, 14.19, 19.11, 20, 20.1, 20.14, 20.32 Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Collins, The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature (2016) 200, 204 |
