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2 Baruch 27 sets out famine, earthquakes, violence, and falling fire before the end. The Apocalypse of Abraham echoes these ordered disasters in its ten plagues, reshaping a familiar sequence of final troubles into punishment of the nations.
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2 Baruch 27:7
Syriac Apocalypse of Baruch
Pseudepigrapha, Apocalypses
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. 12 And in the twelfth part confusion from the mixing together of all those things mentioned. 13 For these parts of that time are reserved, and shall be mixed one with another and minister one to another. 14 For some shall leave out some of their own, and receive in its place from others, and some complete their own and that of others, so that those may not understand who are upon the earth in those days that this is the consummation of the times.
Apocalypse of Abraham 30:6
Pseudepigrapha, Apocalypses
2 And He said to me: "What is desired in your heart I will tell you, because you have sought to see the ten plagues which I have prepared for the heathen, and have prepared beforehand at the passing over of the twelfth hour of the earth. 3 Hear what I divulge to you, so shall it come to pass: 4 the first (is) pain of great distress; the second, conflagration of many cities; 5 the third, destruction and pestilence of animals; the fourth, hunger of the whole world and of its people; 6 the fifth by destruction among its rulers, destruction by earthquake and the sword; the sixth, multiplication of hail and snow; 7 the seventh, the wild beasts will be their grave; the eighth, hunger and pestilence will alternate with their destruction; 8 the ninth, punishment by the sword and flight in distress; the tenth, thunder and voices and destructive earthquake.
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Notes and References
“... Cf. Rev. xi. 19b. [Perhaps the passage most closely parallel with our text is Ap. Bar. xxvii. 1-13.] ...”
Box, G. H., with J. I. Landsman
The Apocalypse of Abraham
(p. PDF 53) Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1918
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