CHAP. III.

Concerning the promise of the great five
days and a half .
GOD said to Adam, "I have ordained on
this earth days and years, and thou and
thy seed shall dwell and walk in it, until the
days and years are fulfilled; when I shall
send the
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Word that created thee, and against which
thou hast transgressed, the Word that
made thee come out of the garden and that
raised thee when thou wast fallen.
2 Yea, the Word that will again save thee
when the five days and a half are fulfilled."
3 But when Adam heard these words from
God, and of the great five days and a half,
he did not understand the meaning of
them.
4 For Adam was thinking that there would
be but five days and a half for him, to the
end of the world.
5 And Adam wept, and prayed God to
explain it to him.
6 Then God in His mercy for Adam who
was made after His own image and
similitude, explained to him, that these
were 5,000 and 500 years; and how One
would then come and save him and his
seed.
7 But God had before that made this
covenant with our father, Adam, in the
same terms, ere he came out of the
garden, when he was by the tree whereof
Eve took the fruit and gave it him to eat.
8 Inasmuch as when our father Adam
came out of the garden, he passed by that
tree, and saw how God had then changed
the appearance of it into another form, and
how it withered.
9 And as Adam went to it he feared,
trembled and fell down; but God in His
mercy lifted him up, and then made this
covenant with him.
10 And, again, when Adam was by the
gate of the garden, and saw the cherub
with a sword of flashing fire in his hand,
and the cherub grew angry and frowned at
him, both Adam and Eve became afraid of
him, and thought he meant to put them to
death. So they fell on their faces, and
trembled with fear.
11 But he had pity on them, and showed
them mercy; and turning from them went
up to heaven, and prayed unto the Lord,
and said:--
12 "Lord, Thou didst send me to watch at
the gate of the garden, with a sword of fire.
13 "But when Thy servants, Adam and Eve,
saw me, they fell on their faces, and were
as dead. O my Lord, what shall we do to
Thy servants?"
14 Then God had pity on them, and
showed them mercy, and sent His Angel to
keep the garden.
15 And the Word of the Lord came unto
Adam and Eve, and raised them up.
16 And the Lord said to Adam, "I told thee
that at the end of five days and a half, I will
send my Word and save thee.
17 "Strengthen thy heart, therefore, and
abide in the Cave of Treasures, of which I
have before spoken to thee."
18 And when Adam heard this Word from
God, he was comforted with that which
God had told him. For He had told him
how He would save him.


To be continued....