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Isaiah 66 has those who worship God look upon the dead rebels amid undying worms and fire. The Apocalypse of Abraham echoes this visible punishment in the fate of idolaters, making their destruction something the obedient see and rejoice over.
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Isaiah 66:24
Hebrew Bible
21 And I will choose some of them as priests and Levites,” says the Lord. 22 “For just as the new heavens and the new earth I am about to make will remain standing before me,” says the Lord, “so your descendants and your name will remain. 23 From one month to the next and from one Sabbath to the next, all people will come to worship me,” says the Lord. 24 “They will go out and observe the corpses of those who rebelled against me, for the maggots that eat them will not die, and the fire that consumes them will not die out. All people will find the sight abhorrent.”
Apocalypse of Abraham 31:4
Pseudepigrapha, Apocalypses
4 For on them they shall see the righteousness of the Creator — those, namely, who have chosen to do my will, and those who have openly kept my commandments, (and) they shall rejoice with joy over the downfall of the men who still remain, 5 who have followed the idols and their murders. For they shall putrefy in the body of the evil worm Azazel, and be burnt with the fire of Azazel's tongue; 6 for I hoped that they would come to me, 7 and not have loved and praised the strange (god), 8 and not have adhered to him for whom they were not allotted, but (instead) they have forsaken the mighty Lord."
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Notes and References
Box, G. H., with J. I. Landsman
The Apocalypse of Abraham
(pp. PDF 54-55) Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1918
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