XXXVI PREFACE.
with it to the great river of fire and plunged me in it to 7 depth of four hundred eubits; then they took me and. se me before the Judge of truth, And I heard this sentence come forth from him:—Take away from before me this soul which has made devils to be gods, and which has denied the God who made it, and let it know that God liveth on high. After these things theyran away with me to a place of darkness wherein there was no light, and they cast me out mto the cold where there was gnashing of teeth, And I saw there the worm that dieth not having the head of a crocodile And he was surrounded by reptiles of all (kinds) who threw down souls before him, and when his own mouth was full he made the other beasts to eat also, and they reut us but we did not die. After these things they brought me out of that place, and carried me to Amenti for ever. And while they were dragging me along I heard a voice behind me, saying, “Bring him back, for he must needs be sent back to the world again through the prayers of Saint Apa Macarius of Antioch;” and they brought my soul back and placed it in my body.”
.A fuller description of the inhabitants and tortures of hell is given im the following extract which states that the camued do not suffer on the Sabbath day. The man who had been dead two hundred years (¢n/ra p. 219) when George raised him up from the dead, said that rest was given om the Lord’s day to every soul in hell, except to those who,
1 Compare the beast part lion, and part hippopotamus, and having the face of a crocodile in the vignette of the 125th chap. of the Book
of the Dead.
