114. indulgence is undone, unbelief is cut off, but justice is fully grown, and truth arisen.
115. Therefore, no one will then be able to have mercy on someone who has been condemned in the judgment, nor to overwhelm one who has conquered."
116. I answered: "This is my first and last word: It would have been better if the earth hadn’t brought forth Adam, or when it had brought him forth, that it had forced him not to sin.
117. What does it benefit everyone to live in sadness during the present time, and when dead to expect punishment?
118. Adam, what have you done?! If you sinned, the downfall wasn’t yours alone but also ours who are descended from you.
119. What benefit is it to us that we are promised an immortal time, but we have done works that bring death?
120. What good is it to us that everlasting hope has been predicted for us, but we have utterly failed?
121. What good is it that safe and healthy dwelling places are reserved, but we have behaved badly?
122. What good is it that the glory of the Most High will protect those who have conducted themselves decently, but we have conducted ourselves indecently?
123. What good is it that paradise will be revealed, whose fruit remains uncorrupted, in which there is plenty and healing,
124. but we won’t enter it, for we have visited unseemly places?
125. What good is it that the faces of those who practiced abstinence will shine brighter than stars when our faces are blacker than darkness?
126. While we were alive and doing evil, we didn’t think about what we would suffer after death."