1"And it will come to pass, when that appointed day has gone by, that then shall the aspect of those who are condemned be afterwards changed, and the glory of those who are justified.
2For the aspect of those who now act wickedly shall become worse than is that of such as suffer torment.
3Also (as for) the glory of those who have now been justified in My law, who have had understanding in their life, and who have planted in their heart the root of wisdom, then their splendour shall be glorified in changes, and the form of their face will be turned into the light of their beauty, that they may be able to acquire and receive the world which does not die, which is then promised to them.
4For over this above all will those who come then lament, that they rejected My law, and stopped their ears that they might not hear wisdom or receive understanding.
5When therefore they see those, over whom they are now exalted, (but) who shall then be exalted and glorified more than they, they shall respectively be transformed, the latter into the splendour of angels, and the former will mainly waste away in wonder at the visions and in the beholding of the forms.
6For they will first behold and afterwards depart to be tormented.
7But those who have been saved by their works, and to whom the law has been now a hope, and understanding an expectation, and wisdom a confidence, will wonders appear in their time.
8For they will behold the world which is now invisible to them, and they will behold the time which is now hidden from them:
9And again time will not age them.
10For in the heights of that world shall they dwell, and they shall be made like unto the angels, and be made equal to the stars, and they shall be changed into every form they desire, from beauty into loveliness, and from light into the splendour of glory.
11For there shall be spread before them the extents of Paradise, and there shall be shown to them the beauty of the majesty of the living creatures which are beneath the throne, and all the armies of the angels, who [are now held fast by My word, lest they should appear, and] are held fast by a command, that they may stand in their places till their advent comes.
12Moreover, there shall then be excellency in the righteous surpassing that in the angels.
13For the first will receive the last, those whom they were expecting, and the last those of whom they used to hear that they had passed away.
14For they have been delivered from this world of tribulation, and laid down the burthen of anguish.
15For what then have men lost their life, and for what have those who were on the earth exchanged their soul?
16For then they chose (not) for themselves that time, which, beyond the reach of anguish, could not pass away, and they chose for themselves that time, whose issues are full of lamentations and evils, and they denied the world which ages not those who come to it, and they rejected the time of the glory, so that they shall not come to the honour of which I told thee before."