1For the Most High will assuredly hasten His times, and He will assuredly bring on His hours.
2And He will assuredly judge those who are in His world, and will visit in truth all things by means of all their hidden works.
3And He will assuredly examine the secret thoughts, and that which is laid up in the secret chambers of all the members of man, and will make (them) manifest in the presence of all with reproof.
4Let none therefore of these present things ascend into your hearts, but above all let us be expectant, because that which is promised to us will come. wi
5And let us not now look unto the delights of the Gentiles in the present, but let us remember what has been promised to us in the end.
6For the ends of the times and of the seasons and whatsoever is with them shall assuredly pass by.
7The consummation, moreover, of the age shall then show the great might of its ruler, when all things come to judgement.
8Do ye therefore prepare your hearts for that which before ye believed, lest ye come to be in bondage in both worlds, so that ye be led away captive here and be tormented there.
9For that which exists now or which has passed away, or which is to come in all these things, neither is the evil fully evil, nor again the good fully good.
10For all healthinesses of this time are turning into diseases.
11And all might of this time is turning into weakness, and all the force of this time is turning into misery.
12And every energy of youth is turning into old age and consummation, and every beauty of gracefulness of this time is turning faded and hateful.
13And every proud dominion of the present is turning into humiliation and shame.
14And every praise of the glory of this time is turning into the shame of silence, and every splendour and insolence of this time is turning into voiceless ruin.
15And every delight and joy of this time is turning to worms and corruption.
16And every clamour of the pride of this time is turning into dust and stillness.
17And every possession of riches of this time is being turned into Sheol alone.
18And all the rapine of passion of this time is turning into involuntary death, and every passion of the lusts of this time is turning into a judgement of torment.
19And every artifice and craftiness of this time is turning into a proof of the truth.
20And every sweetness of unguents of this time is turning into judgement and condemnation.
21And every love of lying is turning to shame through truth.
22Since therefore all these things are done now, does anyone think that they will not be avenged?
23But the consummation of all things will come to the truth.]