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1. Because of this, the Spirit is not speaking
through you, O, human being, as you judge your companion, for against that which
you judge, you shall also revert.
2. And we know that the judgment of God will be heavy against those who revert [to
that same condition.]
3. What do you suppose then, O, human being, that you should judge those who revert
thus, while you are also going back to the same thing, do you think you will run
away from the judgment of God?
4. Or is it His generosity, forbearance and the bounty that he gives you, that you
resent, not knowing that it is God's purpose to bless you?*
5. Except for the hardness of your heart that does not repent, you set yourself up
to inherit the wrath of the day of wrath, and the revealment of God's righteous judgment.
6. He that repays every human being according to his actions.
7. To those who [express] the Hope [of the Kingdom] through good deeds, seeking glory
and honor and not corruption, He gives them Life to [the end of] the universe.
8. Those, however, who refuse and do not adhere to the truth, except they adhere
to abomination, He shall repay them [with] anger and wrath,
9. And tribulation and punishment, to every
human being that performs evil, to the Jews and the Aramaeans first,
10. Glory, however, and honor and peace, to every one who performs good deeds, to
the Jews and Aramaeans first.
11. For there is no hypocrisy with God.
12. For those who sinned without having the Law, went to oblivion also without the
Law. And those who sinned by the Law, shall be judged according to the Law.
13. For it was not the observers* of the Law who stand righteous before God, except
the performers of the Law , they are that shall be blessed
14. For if the nations that have no Law, created a Law for themselves, then they
that had no Law became Law onto themselves.
15. And they showed the result of the Law as it was written upon their heart, and
their conscience shall testify over them, while their intentions are found self-serving
or the revelation of Spirit to each other,
16. On the day God shall judge the hidden acts of humanity, according to my Gospel,
by the hand of Jesus Christ.
17. If, however, you call yourself of the Jews, and you find comfort in the Law,
18. And you take pride in that you know God's will, and you choose one of the ministries
that you have learned from the Law,
19. And you depend on yourself that you are the leader of the blind and the light
of those who are in the dark,
20. And the guide of the poor in judgment and the teacher of children, and you have
the appearance of [someone who has] knowledge of truth in the Land,
21. Such that you therefore teach others, but you do not teach yourself?* And you
preach that they should not steal, yet you steal yourself?
22. And you say that they should not fornicate, and yet you fornicate yourself? And
you who tear down idols, you will save the temple*?
23. And you that pride yourself by the Law, [surely] through your transgression of
the Law, are you not cursing God?
24. For the name of God is blasphemed because of you by the nations, as it is written.
25. Circumcision* is a blessing* if the Law is cultivated. If you, however, transgress
the Law, circumcision becomes exclusionary.
26. If that [person] whom is excluded* [from the covenant,] observes the commandment
of the Law, is not that exclusion then more like circumcision?
27. And that exclusivism* that nurtured the Law from its own character, will judge
you, with your Scripture and circumcision, who transgressed the Law.
28. For neither is someone a Jew, who shows himself to be such, nor is that which
is seen in the flesh, circumcision.
29. Except a Jew is someone who is secretly so, and circumcision is thus of the heart,
in Spirit and not by the Book, since its glory
is not from human beings, except from God.
*2::4 Lit. Ar. id. construction: "Or against
the wealth of His fulfillment and against the extension of His spirit and against
the wealth that he gives you that you [hold in] contempt, and you do not know that
the fulfillment of God is to bring you to blessings?"
*2:13 Lit. Ar. id.: "Hearers."
*2:21 Lit. Ar. id. construction: "...for yourself you do not teach?"
*2:22 Lit. Ar. id.: "House of sacred."
*2:25.1 Old Testament symbolic covenant of cutting the foreskin of a Jewish child
to include him into the circle of believers. "Circumcise" To cut in, inclusively.
*2:25.2 Lit. Ar. id. figure of speech: "Fulfilling."
*2:26 Lit. Ar. id.: "Uncircumcised"
*2:27 Lit. Ar. id.: Uncircumciced."
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