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And Zion shall come and shall be shown to all men, being prepared and built, as thou sawest the hill carved out without hands.
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And this, My Son, shall rebuke the wicked inventions of those nations, which for their wicked life have fallen into the tempest,Œ
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and shall lay before them their evil thoughts and the torments wherewith they shall begin to be tormented, which are like unto a flame; and He shall destroy them wthout labor by the law which is like unto fire.
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"And whereas thou sawest that He gathered another peaceable multitude unto Him,
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those are the ten tribes which were carried away prisoners out of their own land in the time of Hoshea the king, whom Shalmaneser the king of Assyria led away captive; and he carried them over the waters, and so came they into another land.
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But they took this counsel among themselves: that they would leave the multitude of the heathen, and go forth into a further country where never mankind dwelt,
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that they might there keep their statutes, which they never kept in their own land.
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And they entered into the Euphrates by the narrow places of the river.
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For the Most High then showed signs for them, and held still the flood till they had passed over.
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For through that country there was a great way to go,
namely, of a year and a half; and the same region is called Arzareth.
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"Then dwelt they there until the latter time; and now when they shall begin to come,