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Psalms of Solomon 17 expects a ruler who gathers a holy people and restores Israel. The Apocalypse of Abraham echoes this task in God’s Elect One, who summons the despised descendants of Abraham from the nations after the final troubles.
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Psalms of Solomon 17:28
Pseudepigrapha, Wisdom and Poetry
26 He will gather a holy people whom he will lead in righteousness; and he will judge the tribes of the people who have been made holy by the Lord his God. 27 He will not tolerate unrighteousness to dwell among them again, and no person who knows evil will live with them. For he will know them, because they are all children of their God. 28 He will distribute them upon the land according to their tribes. The stranger and the foreigner will no longer live with them. 29 He will judge peoples and nations in the wisdom of his justice. 30 He will have Gentile peoples serving him under his yoke, and he will glorify the Lord publically in the whole world. He will pronounce Jerusalem clean, consecrating it as it was in the beginning.
Apocalypse of Abraham 31:1
Pseudepigrapha, Apocalypses
1 "And then I will sound the trumpet out of the air, and will send my Elect One, having in him all my power, one measure; and this one shall summon my despised people from the nations, 2 and I will burn with fire those who have insulted them and who have ruled among them in (this) Age. And I will give those who have covered me with mockery to the scorn of the coming Age; 3 and I have prepared them to be food for the fire of Hades and for ceaseless flight to and fro through the air in the underworld beneath the earth [the body filled with worms.
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Notes and References
“... Note that it is the Messiah here who summons the outcast Israelites from the nations (so also Ps.
Sol. xvii. 28, Matt. xxiv. 31, 4 Ezra xiii. 39). More usually this is performed by God Himself (cf. the prayer
cited in note1 above). ...”
Box, G. H., with J. I. Landsman
The Apocalypse of Abraham
(p. PDF 54) Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1918
* The use of references are not endorsements of their contents. Please read the entirety of the provided reference(s) to understand the author's full intentions regarding the use of these texts.
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