men, but will bring forth its fruits of its own accord, and will
be well adorned with them. There will be no more generations of
wild beasts, nor will the substance of the rest of the animals
shoot out any more; for it will not produce men, but the number
of the righteous will continue, and never fail, together with
righteous angels, and spirits [of God], and with his word, as a
choir of righteous men and women that never grow old, and
continue in an incorruptible state, singing hymns to God, who
hath advanced them to that happiness, by the means of a regular
institution of life; with whom the whole creation also will lift
up a perpetual hymn from corruption, to incorruption, as
glorified by a splendid and pure spirit. It will not then be
restrained by a bond of necessity, but with a lively freedom
shall offer up a voluntary hymn, and shall praise him that made
them, together with the angels, and spirits, and men now freed
from all bondage.

7. And now, if you Gentiles will be persuaded by these motives,
and leave your vain imaginations about your pedigrees, and
gaining of riches, and philosophy, and will not spend your time
about subtleties of words, and thereby lead your minds into
error, and if you will apply your ears to the hearing of the
inspired prophets, the interpreters both of God and of his word,
and will believe in God, you shall both be partakers of these
things, and obtain the good things that are to come; you shall
see the ascent unto the immense heaven plainly, and that kingdom
which is there. For what God hath now concealed in silence [will
be then made manifest,] what neither eye hath seen, nor ear hath
heard, nor hath it entered into the heart of man, the things that
God hath prepared for them that love him.