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made useless from the rods, and you will know all those who have not kept the law, and you will see the dwelling place of each one. I say to him, “Lord, why did he send some away to the tower, but leave others to you?” “All who,” he says, “transgressed the law which they received from him, he left them to my authority for repentance; but all who have already been well-pleased with the law and have kept it, he has them under his own authority.” “Who then, sir,” I say, “are the ones who are crowned and go into the tower?” Answering, he says to me, “These crowned ones are they who have wrestled with the devil and have conquered him; these are they who have suffered for the law; but the others, who also gave up their rods green and having shoots, but not having fruit, were afflicted for the law, but did not suffer nor deny their law. And those who gave them up green, just as they received them, are venerable and righteous and have walked exceedingly in a pure heart and have kept the commandments of the Lord. But the rest you will know, when I have examined these rods which have been planted and watered.” After a few days we came to the place, and the shepherd sat down in the place of the great angel, and I stood beside him. He says to me, “Gird yourself with a linen cloth and serve me.” I girded myself with a clean linen cloth made of sackcloth. Seeing me girded and ready to serve him, he says, “Call the men whose rods are planted, according to the ranks, as each one gave up his rod.” I went away into the plain and called them all; and they all stood rank by rank. And he says to them, “Let each one pull up his own rod and bring it to me.” First they gave them up who had them dry and cut short; likewise they were found dry and cut short; he commanded them to stand apart. Then those who had the rods dry and not cut short gave them up; some of them gave up their rods green, but some dry and cut short as if by a moth. He commanded those who had given them up green to stand apart, and those who had them dry and cut short he commanded to stand with the first. Then they gave them up who had them half-dry and with cracks; many of them gave them up green and without cracks; and some green and having shoots, and on the shoots fruits, like those which they had who went into the tower crowned; some gave them up dry and eaten, and some dry and not eaten, and some as they were, half-dry and with cracks. He commanded them each to stand apart, some with their own ranks, and others apart. Then they gave up their rods who had them green, but with cracks; all these gave them up green and stood in their own rank. The shepherd rejoiced over these, because they all were changed and had put off their cracks. And they also gave them up who had half green, and half dry; the rods of some were found completely green, of some half-dry, of some dry and eaten, and of some green and having shoots. All these were sent away each to his own rank. Then they gave them up who had two parts green, but the third dry; many of them gave them up green, many half-dry, and others dry and eaten; all these were sent away each to his own rank. And others gave up their rods, two parts dry, but the third green; many of them gave them up half-dry, some dry and eaten, and some half-dry and

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ἐκ τῶν ·άβδων ἠχρειωμένας, γνώσῃ δὲ αὐτοὺς πάντας τοὺς μὴ τηρήσαντας τὸν νόμον, καὶ ὄψῃ ἑνὸς ἑκάστου τὴν κατοικίαν. λέγω αὐτῷ· Κύριε, διατί οὓς μὲν ἀπέλυσεν εἰς τὸν πύργον, οὓς δὲ σοὶ κατέλιπεν; Ὅσοι, φησί, παρέ βησαν τὸν νόμον ὃν ἔλαβον παρ' αὐτοῦ, εἰς τὴν ἐμὴν ἐξουσίαν αὐτοὺς κατέ λιπεν εἰς μετάνοιαν· ὅσοι δὲ ἤδη εὐηρέστηκαν τῷ νόμῳ καὶ τετήρηκαν αὐ τόν, ὑπὸ τὴν ἰδίαν ἐξουσίαν αὐτοὺς ἔχει. Τίνες οὖν, φημί, κύριε, εἰσὶν οἱ ἐστεφανωμένοι καὶ εἰς τὸν πύργον ὑπάγοντες; ἀποκριθείς μοι λέγει· Oἱ ἐστεφανωμένοι οὗτοί εἰσιν οἱ μετὰ τοῦ διαβόλου παλαίσαντες καὶ νικήσαν τες αὐτόν· οὗτοί εἰσιν οἱ ὑπὲρ τοῦ νόμου παθόντες· οἱ δὲ ἕτεροι καὶ αὐτοὶ τὰς ·άβδους χλωρὰς ἐπιδεδωκότες καὶ παραφυάδας ἐχούσας, καρπὸν δὲ μὴ ἐχούσας, ὑπὲρ τοῦ νόμου θλιβέντες, μὴ παθόντες δὲ μηδὲ ἀρνησάμενοι τὸν νόμον αὐτῶν. οἱ δὲ χλωρὰς ἐπιδεδωκότες, οἵας ἔλαβον, σεμνοὶ καὶ δίκαιοι καὶ λίαν πορευθέντες ἐν καθαρᾷ καρδίᾳ καὶ τὰς ἐντολὰς τοῦ κυρίου πεφυλακότες. τὰ δὲ λοιπὰ γνώσῃ, ὅταν κατανοήσω τὰς ·άβδους ταύ τας τὰς πεφυτευμένας καὶ πεποτισμένας. Μετὰ ἡμέρας ὀλίγας ἤλθομεν εἰς τὸν τόπον, καὶ ἐκάθισεν ὁ ποιμὴν εἰς τὸν τόπον τοῦ ἀγγέλου τοῦ μεγάλου, κἀγὼ παρεστάθην αὐτῷ. λέγει μοι· Περίζωσαι ὠμόλινον καὶ διακόνει μοι. περιεζωσάμην ἐγὼ ὠμόλινον ἐκ σάκ κου γεγονὸς καθαρόν. ἰδών με περιεζωσμένον καὶ ἕτοιμον ὄντα τοῦ δια κονεῖν αὐτῷ, Κάλει, φησίν, τοὺς ἄνδρας, ὧν εἰσιν αἱ ·άβδοι πεφυτευμέναι, κατὰ τὰ τάγματα, ὥς τις ἐπέδωκεν τὰς ·άβδους. ἀπῆλθον εἰς τὸ πεδίον καὶ ἐκάλεσα πάντας· καὶ ἔστησαν πάντες τάγματα τάγματα. λέγει δὲ αὐτοῖς· Ἕκαστος ἐκτιλάτω τὰς ·άβδους τὰς ἰδίας καὶ φερέτω πρός με. πρῶτοι ἐπέδωκαν οἱ τὰς ξηρὰς καὶ κεκομμένας ἐσχηκότες· ὡσαύτως εὑρέ θησαν ξηραὶ καὶ κεκομμέναι· ἐκέλευσεν αὐτοὺς χωρὶς στῆναι. εἶτα ἐπέδωκαν τὰς ·άβδους οἱ τὰς ξηρὰς καὶ μὴ κεκομμένας ἔχοντες· τινὲς ἐξ αὐτῶν ἐπέδωκαν τὰς ·άβδους χλωράς, τινὲς δὲ ξηρὰς καὶ κεκομμένας ὡς ὑπὸ σητός. τοὺς ἐπιδεδωκότας χλωρὰς ἐκέλευσεν χωρὶς στῆναι, τοὺς δὲ ξηρὰς καὶ κεκομμένας μετὰ τῶν πρώτων ἐκέλευσεν στῆναι. εἶτα ἐπέ δωκαν οἱ τὰς ἡμίσους ξηροὺς καὶ σχισμὰς ἐχούσας· πολλοὶ ἐξ αὐτῶν χλωρὰς ἐπέδωκαν καὶ μὴ ἐχούσας σχισμάς· τινὲς δὲ χλωρὰς καὶ παρα φυάδας ἐχούσας καὶ εἰς τὰς παραφυάδας καρπούς, οἵας ἔσχον οἱ εἰς τὸν πύργον πορευθέντες ἐστεφανωμένοι· τινὲς δὲ ἐπέδωκαν ξηρὰς καὶ βεβρωμέ νας, τινὲς δὲ ξηρὰς καὶ ἀβρώτους, τινὲς δὲ οἷαι ἦσαν ἡμίξηροι καὶ σχισμὰς ἔχουσαι. ἐκέλευσεν αὐτοὺς ἕκαστον αὐτῶν χωρὶς στῆναι, τοὺς μὲν πρὸς τὰ ἴδια τάγματα, τοὺς δὲ χωρίς. Eἶτα ἐπεδίδουν οἱ τὰς ·άβδους χλωρὰς μὲν ἔχοντες, σχισμὰς δὲ ἐχούσας· οὗτοι πάντες χλωρὰς ἐπέδωκαν καὶ ἔστησαν εἰς τὸ ἴδιον τάγμα. ἐχάρη ὁ ποιμὴν ἐπὶ τούτοις, ὅτι πάντες ἠλλοιώθησαν καὶ ἀπέθοντο τὰ σχίσματα αὐτῶν. ἐπέδωκαν δὲ καὶ οἱ τὸ ἥμισυ χλωρόν, τὸ δὲ ἥμισυ ξηρόν· τινῶν εὑρέθησαν αἱ ·άβδοι ὁλοτελεῖς χλωραί, τινῶν ἡμίξηροι, τινῶν ξηραὶ καὶ βεβρωμέναι, τινῶν δὲ χλωραὶ καὶ παραφυάδας ἔχουσαι. οὗτοι πάντες ἀπελύ θησαν ἕκαστος πρὸς τὸ τάγμα αὐτοῦ. εἶτα ἐπέδωκαν οἱ τὰ δύο μέρη χλωρὰ ἐσχηκότες, τὸ δὲ τρίτον ξηρόν· πολλοὶ ἐξ αὐτῶν χλωρὰς ἐπέδωκαν, πολλοὶ δὲ ἡμιξήρους, ἕτεροι δὲ ξηρὰς καὶ βεβρωμένας· οὗτοι πάντες ἀπε στάλησαν ἕκαστος εἰς τὸ ἴδιον τάγμα. ἕτεροι δὲ ἐπεδίδοσαν τὰς ·άβδους αὐτῶν, τὰ δύο μέρη ξηρά, τὸ δὲ τρίτον χλωρόν· πολλοὶ ἐξ αὐτῶν ἐπέδωκαν ἡμιξήρους, τινὲς δὲ ξηρὰς καὶ βεβρωμένας, τινὲς δὲ ἡμιξήρους καὶ