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In the Sibylline Oracles, angels carry the righteous through fire to three fountains of honey, wine and milk. In the Apocalypse of Peter, Uriel sets every judged soul in that fire, and angels lift only the elect out.
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1000+ CE
Sibylline Oracles 2:315
Pseudepigrapha, Apocalypses
313 But the others, all to whom right and fair works 314 and piety and thoughts most just were dear, 315 angels will, carrying them through the burning stream, 316 lead into light and life free from care, 317 where the immortal way of the great God comes 318 and three fountains—of honey, wine, and milk.
Apocalypse of Peter 1:45
Revelation of Peter
Early Christian
43 Ezrael the angel of God will bring them forth out of this fire and establish a judgment of decision. This then is their judgment: a river of fire will flow, and all who are judged will be drawn down into the middle of the river. And Uriel will set them there. 44 There are wheels of fire, and men and women hung on them by the force of their whirling. Those who are in the pit will burn: these are the sorcerers and sorceresses. Those wheels will be in the judgment by fire without number. 45 After this, the angels will bring my elect and righteous, who are perfect in all uprightness, and bear them in their hands, and clothe them with the garments of the life that is above. They will see their desire on those who hated them, when he punishes them, and the torment of every one will be forever according to his works.
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Notes and References
“... Book 2 contains a long eschatological section (154-338) in which resurrection and the judgment and destinies of the dead are prominent subjects. But most of this section (178-338) is a paraphrase of the Christian Apocalypse of Peter, supplemented by passages taken from Sibylline Oracle 8. All the material on resurrection and judgment of the dead is from the Apocalypse of Peter. This dependence on the Apocalypse of Peter was already demonstrated conclusively by M.R. James, 'A New Text of the Apocalypse of Peter,' JTS 12 (1911) 39-44, 51-52, but his work is not known to J. J. Collins, who therefore underestimates the extent of the Christian material in book 2 [...] Thus the only eschatological material from the original Jewish book 1-2 is in 2:154-177. ...”
Bauckham, Richard
The Jewish World around the New Testament: Collected Essays
(p. 321) Mohr Siebeck, 2008
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