2 Baruch 42:8

Syriac Apocalypse of Baruch
Pseudepigrapha

6 And time shall succeed to time and season to season, and one shall receive from another, and then with a view to the consummation shall everything be compared according to the measure of the times and the hours of the seasons. 7 For corruption shall take those that belong to it, and life those that belong to it. 8 And the dust shall be called, and there shall be said to it: "Give back that which is not thine, and raise up all that thou hast kept until its time."

Revelation 20:13

New Testament

12 And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne. Then books were opened, and another book was opened—the book of life. So the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to their deeds. 13 The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and Death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and each one was judged according to his deeds. 14 Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death—the lake of fire. 15 If anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, that person was thrown into the lake of fire.

 Notes and References

"... the idea of Christ's defeat of the powers of Hades is sufficiently explained from the Jewish apocalyptic expectation that at the last day God would 'reprove the angel of death' (2 Baruch 42:8), command Sheol to release the souls of the dead (2 Baruch 42:8), abolish death (Pseudo-Philo Biblical Antiquities 3:10), close the mouth of Sheol (Pseudo-Philo Biblical Antiquities 3:10) or seal it up (2 Baruch 21:23). In the expectation of resurrection there was a sense of death and its realm as a power which had to be broken by God (compare also Matthew 16:18; 1 Corinthians 15:44-45; Revelation 20:14; 4 Ezra 8:53). These ideas were transferred to the context of Christ's descent to Hades because of the early Christian belief that Christ's death and resurrection were the eschatological triumph of God over death. The details, as we have seen, derived from that process of Christological exegesis of the Old Testament which supplied so much of the phraseology and imagery of early Christian belief ..."

Bauckham, Richard The Fate of the Dead: Studies on the Jewish and Christian Apocalypses (p. 43) Brill, 1998

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