68. For all that are born are defiled with iniquities, and are full of sins and laden with offences:
69. and if after death we were not to come into judgement, perhaps it had been better for us.
70. And he answered me, and said, When the Most High made the world, and Adam and all them that came of him, he first prepared the Judgement and the things that pertain to the judgement.
71. And now understand from your own words, for you have said that the mind grows with us.
72. They therefore that dwell upon the earth shall be tormented for this reason, that having understanding they have wrought iniquity, and receiving commandments have not kept them, and having obtained a law they dealt unfaithfully with that which they received.
73. What then will they have to say in the judgement, or how will they answer in the last times?
74. For how great a time has the Most High been longsuffering with them that inhabit the world, and not for their sakes, but because of the times which he has foreordained!
75. And I answered and said, if I have found grace in your sight, O Lord, show this also to your servant, whether after death, even now when every one of us gives up his soul, we shall be kept in rest until those times come, in which you shall renew the creation, or whether we shall be tormented forthwith.
76. And he answered me, and said, I will show you this also; but join not yourself with them that are scorners, nor count yourself with them that are tormented.
77. For you have a treasure of good works laid up with the Most High, but it shall not be showed you until the last times.
78. For concerning death the teaching is: When the determinate sentence has gone forth from the Most High that a man should die, as the spirit leaves the body to return again to him who gave it, it adores the glory of the Most High first of all.
79. And if it be one of those that have been scorners and have not kept the way of the Most High, and that have despised his law, and that hate them that fear God,