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Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered - The Preterist Archive

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Translation<br />

Fragment 1 Column 1 (5) ... the [Li]ght of the Angels who were (6) ... he said to them, 'It will all<br />

happen ...'(7) high. It is he who ... (8) and he said to me, 'O King, because . . .' (9) as everything was<br />

done, they would arise (10) . . . he said, '<strong>The</strong>y shall be.' And he explicated to them clearly (11) ... their<br />

lords. One of them (12) [ ... <strong>The</strong>n the Angel upon w]hom<br />

Fragment 1 Column 2 (1) (rested) the brilliant Light arose, and the four tree[s after him.] (2) A tree<br />

arose, and (the others) moved away from it. He (the Angel) sai[d to me ...'What](3) kind of tree is it?' I<br />

replied, 'If only I could see and underst[an]d it.' [<strong>The</strong>n I saw] (4) a balsam tree . . . (5) I asked it, 'What<br />

is your name? 'It replied, 'Babylon.' [<strong>The</strong>n I said to it,] (6) '[Yo]u are he who shall rule over Persia.'<br />

<strong>The</strong>n [I saw another tr]ee (7) [that was be]low where we were standing, and it swore . . . and claimed<br />

(8) to be different. (superior to the previous tree?) . . . So I asked him, 'What is [your] name?' [He<br />

replied ...] (9) I said to him, 'You are he wh[o shall rule over . . .'] [By] (10) my power and by the<br />

region . . . he swore [ . . . And I saw] (1 1) [the] third tree, [and] I said to [him, 'What is your name?'<br />

He replied,] (12)'Your vision ...'<br />

Fragment 2 (1) ... and I said to him, 'This is it. Who is the ruler of...'<br />

Fragment 3 (9 )... the lord of ... (10) the Most High God ... (11) which is upon them ... (12) [the Lor]d<br />

of all, he who appoints judges ...<br />

Fragment 4 (9) ... they shall seize (10) ... the vision (11 )... you have spoken (12) [...the kin]g who shall<br />

escape ...

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