(15) And there will be great wrath from the Lord against the children of Israel, because they have forsaken His covenant and turned aside from His word, and pro- voked and blasphemed, inasmuch as they do not observe the ordinance of this law ; for they have treated their members like the Gentiles, so that they may be removed and rooted out of the land. And there will no more be pardon or forgiveness unto them [so that there should be forgiveness and pardon] for all the sin of this eternal error. ' Apparently such apostasy was widely spread when our author wrote. f \

(23) And in that generation the sons will convict their fathers and their elders of sin and unrighteousness, and of the words of their mouth and the great wickednesses which they per- petrate, and concerning their forsaking the covenant • which the Lord made between them and Him, that they should observe and do all His commandments and His ordinances and all His laws, without depart- ing either to the right hand or to the left.

(12) Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets. Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?

(51) Seeing all thy Children despise thee, whom thou didst bear, and hast given them suck in their Childhood, and will not give thee any Attendance, or minister to thee in thy high or old Age;

(9) And they all said, "So be it ; so be it," for themselves and their sons for ever throughout their generations till the day of judgment, on which the Lord God shall judge them with a sword and with fire, for all the unclean wickedness of their errors, wherewith they have filled the earth with transgression and uncleanness and fornication and sin. 1 Including ( ?) Britain and Ireland. •*v*ift4r< f Noah's Sons led astray by Evil Spirits ; Noah's Prayer ; Mastema ; Death of Noah (x. - ; cf. Gen. ix. ).