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rejoice before my soul shall go forth from my body. Henceforward [the thought of] dying shall not make me Hencesorrowful, and I will love death as I love life. forward I will drink of the bitter cup of death as if it were honey, and henceforward I will love the grave as if it were an abode of costly gems. And when I have descended and have been thrust down deep into Sheol because of my sins, I shall not suffer grief, because I have heard the word which hath made me glad. And wjien I have gone down into the lowest depth of the deepest deep of Sheol, because of my sins, what will it matter And if He crush me to powder in His hand and to me ? scatter me to the ends of the earth and to the winds because of my sins, it will not make me sorrowful, because I have heard the word that hath made me to rejoice, and God hath not cut my soul off from the inheritance of my fathers. And my soul shall be with the soul of David my father, and with the soul of Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob my fathers. And the Saviour shall come and shall bring us out from Sheol with all my fathers, and my kinsmen, old and young. And as for my children, they shall have upon earth three mighty angels to protect them. I have found the kingdom of the heavens, and the kingdom of the earth. Who is like unto God, the Merciful, Who showeth mercy to His handiwork and glorifieth it, Who forgiveth the sins of the sinners and Who doth not blot out the memorial of the penitent ? For His whole Person is forgiveness, and His whole Person is mercy, and to Him belongeth praise." Amen. CONCERNING THE QUESTION OF SOLOMON And Solomon turned and looked at the Angel and 69. stretched out both his hands, and said, lord, is the of which thou of the Saviour speakest near or far coming " " And the answered and said unto him, He off ? Angel will come three and thirty generations from thy kin and "My 114