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2 Baruch 27 divides the final troubles into twelve periods before restoration. The Apocalypse of Abraham echoes this division of the evil age, placing the suffering of the nations and Abraham’s descendants within a timetable that ends in judgment.
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1000+ CE
2 Baruch 27:1
Syriac Apocalypse of Baruch
Pseudepigrapha, Apocalypses
1 And He answered and said to me: ‘Into twelve parts is that time divided, and each one of them is reserved for that which is appointed for it. 2 In the first part there shall be the beginning of commotions. 3 And in the second part there shall be killings of the great ones. 4 And in the third part the fall of many by death. 5 And in the fourth part the sending of the sword. 6 And in the fifth part famine and the withholding of rain. 7 And in the sixth part earthquakes and terrors. 8 And in the eighth part a multitude of spectres and attacks of the Shedim. 9 And in the ninth part the fall of fire. 10 And in the tenth part robbery and much oppression, 11 And in the eleventh part wickedness and unchastity.
Apocalypse of Abraham 29:2
Pseudepigrapha, Apocalypses
2 And He said: "I have ordained twelve years of this ungodly Age to rule among the heathen and in your seed; and until the end of the times it shall be as you saw. 3 And reckon and understand and look into the picture." 4 And I [looked and] saw a man going out from the left side of the heathen; and there went out men and women and children, from the side of the heathen, many hosts, and worshipped him. 5 And while I still looked there came out from the right side [many], and some insulted that man, while some struck him; others, however, worshipped him. 6 [And] I saw how these worshipped him, and Azazel ran and worshipped him, and having kissed his face he turned and stood behind him.
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Notes and References
“... We may compare 4 Ezra xiv. 11 (“For the world-age is divided into twelve
parts”), and the cloud and water vision in Ap. Bar. liii. f., where a similar division appears. ...”
Box, G. H., with J. I. Landsman
The Apocalypse of Abraham
(p. PDF 49) Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1918
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