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Apocalypse of Peter 11

Vision of Hell

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And into another place hard by, full of filth, do they cast men and women up to the knees.

2These are they that lent money and took usury.

3And other men and women cast themselves down from an high place and return again and run, and devils drive them.

4[These are the worshippers of idols] and they put them to the end of their wits (drive them up to the top of the height) and they cast themselves down.

5And thus do they continually, and are tormented for ever.

6These are they which have cut their flesh as [apostles] of a man: and the women that were with them ...and these are the men that defiled themselves together as women.

7And beside them (shall be a brazier?) ... and beneath them shall the angel Ezraël prepare a place of muchfire: and all the idols of gold and silver, all idols, the work of men’s hands, and the semblances of images of cats and lions, of creeping things and wild beasts, and the men and women that have prepared the images thereof, shall be in chains of fire and shall be chastised because of their error before the idols, and this is their judgement for ever.

8And beside them shall be other men and women, burning in the fire of the judgement, and their torment is everlasting.

9These are they that have forsaken the commandment of God and followed the (persuasions?) of devils.

About Apocalypse of Peter

A detailed description of the judgement, with punishments matched to each sin. It appeared in ancient lists of accepted books before being left out. English text: The Apocryphal New Testament, Apocalypse of Peter (Oxford: Clarendon Press), M. R. James, 1924 (public domain). Portuguese and Spanish: Lux Veritas translations from this edition.

Source: The Apocryphal New Testament, Apocalypse of Peter (Oxford: Clarendon Press), M. R. James (1924) · public domain