2 Meqabyan 14:1-36

¹But the beliefs of the Samaritans and the Jews - the Sadducees who do not believe the dead will rise, and the Pharisees - totally sadden me and trouble my reasoning.

²The Samaritans say, As our flesh will become dust, it will not arise.

³Because the soul was invisible like the wind or a distant voice, and because it was what they call invisible, they say the soul will not arise if the flesh is dead.

⁴But as beasts and worms will eat the flesh in the grave, our flesh is seen by all; it will become dust and ashes.

⁵Those beasts who ate the flesh will become dust, for they have been like grass; they become dust as if they were never created, and their trace will not be found; so our flesh will not arise.

⁶And the Pharisees say, We believe the dead will rise; however, He will bring and unite souls with another flesh that is in Heaven, not on Earth.

⁷But the Sadducees say, After our soul has left our flesh, we will not arise with the dead; flesh and soul have no rising after they die.

⁸Because of this, they are totally in error, and as they speak insults against the Lord's Divinity, their beliefs sadden me.

⁹As they did not believe the Lord who honors them, they have no hope of being saved.

¹⁰O Jew who is blind in reasoning - when you were created from non-existence to life, even when scorned like spit - will you make the Lord ignorant, He who made you a person?

¹¹Since you will not escape the Lord's authority, do not think such a thing; you will arise whether you wish to or not.

¹²For the sin found in demons, which demons place in your reasoning, is worked with you after you were born from your mother's womb, and it is worked abundantly as you grow up.

¹³They place it in your body when you die, and it will bring hardship upon them for having worked it.

¹⁴Just as there is sin in their mind, there are people who work sin being seized by it; their kind will be presented to demons.

¹⁵All sinners' souls shall come from the edge of Heaven where they are, and your sin likewise shall introduce you to Gehenna.

¹⁶After your flesh has lived separate from your soul, the Lord's dew of charity shall arouse you, being seven-fold like the flesh of our father Adam.

¹⁷You who live in the grave, you also err in your error; let it not seem to you that you only mislead others.

¹⁸He shall arouse you so He might give you your hardship according to the work you performed.

¹⁹At that time - whether your nature be wind in wind, or water in water, or earth in earth, or fire in fire - it shall come.

²⁰And if a soul that dwelt in you is what lived in Sheol, she shall come.

²¹And the souls of the righteous that live in the Garden in glory shall come.

²²But you - Jew, Samaritan, Pharisee, Sadducee - will live in Sheol until you are judged.

²³At that time you will see that the Lord shall pay you hardship according to your sin because you misled people.

²⁴Saying, The dead will not arise; since we will die, let us eat and drink - and because you sat in Moses' seat and misled others by your words - you will see that He shall pay you your hardship.

²⁵Without knowing the Law, you taught the words of the books; because of this you erred.

²⁶It would have been better if you did not know the word of the books, while you lead the Lord's people astray with your evil teaching and worthless words.

²⁷For the Lord does not show favoritism; He shall give the grace and glory He prepared for His friends - those who teach good works.

²⁸There is nothing by which you will escape the authority of the Lord who shall judge you; He will pay you according to your work, for you and those you taught together will receive a sentence.

²⁹Know that the dead shall arise; and if they are people who kept His Law, they shall arise.

³⁰As moist wood drinks dew and sends forth leaves when He satisfies the Earth with rain - as wheat bears fruit and grain produces buds - it is not possible to withhold the fruit if the Lord wills it.

³¹And as it is not possible for a woman who has conceived to close and prevent her womb when labor seizes her - as she cannot escape without giving birth.

³²As dew has descended upon her being commanded by the Lord, she shall produce them all at once. After hearing the Lord's Word, a grave likewise cannot prevent the persons gathered within it from arising.

³³Flesh shall be gathered in the place where the corpses fell; the places where souls live shall be opened; and souls shall return to the flesh from which they were formerly separated.

³⁴When a drum is beaten, the dead shall quickly arise in the blink of an eye. Having arisen, they shall stand before the Lord, and He shall give them their reward according to the work of their hands.

³⁵At that time you will see that you arise with the dead, and you will marvel at all the work you did in this world.

³⁶You know that you will arise with the dead and that you will receive your hardship according to the work you performed.