2 Meqabyan 16:1-15

1Please, consider your own body: your toenails, your fingernails, and the hair on your head - how they grow back quickly after you cut them. Know the Resurrection by this.

2Regarding your nails and your hair, do you ask, Where do these come from? Is it not the Lord who prepared them to grow?

3Because you misled people by saying, There is no Resurrection of the dead, when the dead arise, you will receive your hardship according to your sins and iniquity.

4Just as the seed you plant now will not refuse to grow - whether it be wheat or barley - you will see this truth in the hour your hardship arrives.

5Furthermore, the plant you sow does not say, I will not grow. Whether it is a fig tree or a grapevine, its fruit and leaves do not change their nature.

6If you plant grapes, they do not change into figs; if you plant figs, they do not change into grapes; if you sow wheat, it does not change into barley.

7Every seed, according to its kind - every fruit, every wood, every leaf, and every root - sends forth fruit, having received the blessing of the Dew of Pardon from the Lord.

8Likewise, as a grave produces flesh and soul, it shall produce persons exactly as the Lord sowed them within it. The flesh and soul the Lord sowed shall arise united.

9In the hour when the drum is beaten, the dead shall arise by the Dew of Pardon found from the Lord. Those who did good works shall arise to the Resurrection of Life.

10But those who did evil works shall arise to the Resurrection of Final Judgment, along with the Devil who misled them.

11And with his armies - demons who do not love even one of Adam's children to be saved.

12They shall descend to the edge of the darkness of Gehenna, where there is grinding of teeth and mourning; where there is no mercy or pardon, and no exit for all eternity.

13Because of this, they shall be judged in the hour that flesh and soul arise united.

14Woe to those who do not believe in the rising of flesh and soul, through which the Lord shows the abundance of His miracles.

15Everyone shall receive their reward according to their work and the labor of their hands.