Pseudo-Orpheus

Pseudepigrapha · 2nd century B.C.E.

1And He Himself is established over the great heaven on a golden throne, and earth lies under His feet. and around the ends of the ocean His right hand He stretches, and the foundation of the mountains trembles within violently. And it is not possible to endure His mighty force. But in every way He is heavenly, and completes all things on earth.[1] Since He controls their beginning as well as their middle and end. As a word of the ancients, as one born in the underbrush proclaimed he received teaching from God in the two tablets of the law. To reveal any more to you is not permitted. My limbs tremble. By thought from above He governs over everything in orderly fashion. O child, be close to Him in your mind And do not abandon this divine message, but rather preserve it in your heart.

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