3 Meqabyan 4:1-36

¹The Lord has it in His power to ransom Adam, and He shall put you the Devil to shame. He will save a sheep from a wolf's mouth - that is, Adam from the Devil.

²However, you shall go toward Gehenna, taking with you the people whom you ruled.

³Those who kept the Law of their Creator, the Lord, shall be joyful with Him.

⁴But the Lord - who chose you and gave you more than all the Angels like you so that you might praise Him - withheld a lofty throne from you because of your arrogance.

⁵Instead, you became infamous and were called one who loves false godhood, and your hosts were called demons.

⁶But those who loved the Lord shall be His kindred, like the honored Angels; and the Seraphim and Cherubim who praise Him stretch forth their wings and praise Him without ceasing.

⁷But in your arrogance and laziness, you destroyed your own praise, though you were meant to praise Him always.

⁸Lest the praise of the Lord be diminished when you forgot to praise Him, He created Adam in your place.

⁹But in the arrogance of your reasoning, you neglected the praise of the Lord who created you; therefore He was angry with you. He ridiculed you, bound you, and banished you to Gehenna.

¹⁰He brought soil from the Earth with His glorified Hands; and adding fire, water, and wind, He created Adam in His own Example and Features.

¹¹He appointed him over all the creation He made by His authority, so that His praise might be fulfilled by the praise you should have given Him.

¹²But in the stubbornness of your reasoning and your arrogance, you were humbled from your rank; and having departed from the Lordship of the One who created you, you destroyed yourself.

¹³Know that His praise was not diminished; for the Lord created Adam, who praised Him in the counsel of his reasoning.

¹⁴For He knows all things before they are done. He knew you before He created you - that you would demolish His Command.

¹⁵Just as Solomon spoke, saying: Before the hills were created, and before the world was successfully made, and before the winds that are the foundations of the Earth were created.

¹⁶And before He established the foundations of the hills and mountains, and before the work of this world was set, and before the light of the moon and Sun shone.

¹⁷And before daylight and night alternated, and before the sea was bounded by sand - before any of the created beings were made.

¹⁸And before all that is seen today was seen, or any names called today were named - I, Solomon, was created. Angels like you, and His servant Adam, were already in the Lord's Mind.

¹⁹He created Adam so that His glorified Name might be praised when you mutinied, and so He might be praised by His humble servant Adam when you became arrogant.

²⁰For being in Heaven, the Lord hears the plea of the poor, and He loves the praise of the humble.

²¹He loves to save those in whom He dwells who fear Him; yet as He does not love the power of horses, the Lord shall ignore the deeds of the arrogant.

²²And they shall weep while they cry out because of the sins they committed.

²³You the Devil failed to plead in repentance.

²⁴But Adam, who was created from Earth, returned in repentance, weeping bitterly before the Lord because of his sin.

²⁵But in your stubbornness and your heart's arrogance, you did not know the work of Love, nor did you know repentance.

²⁶But Adam, who is ashes and earth, returned to repentance in mourning and sadness, and he returned to humility and the work of Love.

²⁷But you did not humble your reasoning or yourself before the Lord who created you.

²⁸As for Adam, he humbled himself and pleaded regarding the iniquity he committed; he was not proud.

²⁹As you have totally produced crime, it originated from you; yet it was not Adam who produced that error.

³⁰Before He created you both, He knew you were sinners; and knowing your works, He knew that what was done came from the arrogance of your heart.

³¹But He restored Adam - who was without arrogance or malice - through repentance, mourning, and sadness.

³²For a person who does wrong and does not plead in repentance has multiplied his iniquity more than his earlier sins.

³³He has truly repented. He has found the work by which he will be saved, so that he might fear the Heart of his Lord.

³⁴If he does not return to his former sin and continues in this way, this is perfect repentance.

³⁵And you the Devil - plead in repentance toward your Creator, and do not wrong them because they are flesh and blood.

³⁶And after their souls are separated from their flesh, their flesh shall be dust until the day the Lord chooses.