LVIII-LXXI. The Third Parable.
LVIII. The Blessedness of the Saints.
1 And I began to speak the third Parable concerning the righteous and elect.
2 Blessed are ye, ye righteous and elect,For glorious shall be your lot.
3 And the righteous shall be in the light of the sun,And the elect in the light of eternal life:The days of their life shall be unending,And the days of the holy without number.
4 And they shall seek the light and find righteousness with the Lord of Spirits:There shall be peace to the righteous in the name of the Eternal Lord.
5 And after this it shall be said to the holy in heavenThat they should seek out the secrets of righteousness, the heritage of faith:For it has become bright as the sun upon earth,And the darkness is past.
6 And there shall be a light that never endeth,And to a limit (lit. ‘number’) of days they shall not come,For the darkness shall first have been destroyed,[And the light established before the Lord of Spirits]And the light of uprightness established for ever before the Lord of Spirits.