XXXVIII PREFACE.
they gnashed me with their teeth. And after a short time my eyes were opened and I saw the dead hovering about in the air in a multitude of forms. Then straightway the merciless angels brought my wretched soul out of my body
and tied it under a bodiless horse, and dragged me down to Amenti. QO woe is every sinner like myself born into the world! O, my master and father, how numcrous were! the pitiless torturers, each with a different form, into whose! power they gave me! O what a number of wild beasts) did I see on the way! O how exceeding great was the power of those that tortured me! And when they had!
cast me forth into outer darkness I saw a huge place more: than two hundred cubits deep filled with reptiles, and som 4 of them had seven heads, and their whole bodies were . .. H like scorpions. And there was also a huge worm mos) , terrible to behold, and the teeth in his mouth were like iron stakes; and they threw me down for that worm, which never rests, to eat. And all the beasts are assembled round about him at all times, and when he fills his mouth,) all the wild beasts round about him fill their mouths.” My father said to him, “Since thon art dead until this’ present has there never been any repose given to thee, or any time in which thou hast not been made to suffer?” The mummy replied, “Yes, my father, pity is shown to those who are enduring punishment every Sabbath and every Lord’s day. When the Lord’s day has come to an end, we are (again) cast into the punishments which we deserve that we may forget the years that we have lived m the world; and when we have forgotten the sorrow of this punishment they
