The Apocalypse of the Holy Mother of God Concerning the Chastisements 1919

The Apocalypse of the Virgin · The Ante-Nicene Fathers Volume IX: Recently Discovered Additions to Early Christian Literature and Commentaries of Origen by Philip Schaff

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XIX. And she saw women hanging by their nails, and a flame of fire came out of their mouth and burned them: and all the beasts coming out of the fire gnawed them to pieces, and groaning they cried out: Have pity on us, have pity, for we are chastised worse than all those who are under chastisement. And seeing them the all holy one wept, and asked the commander-in-chief, Michael: Who are these and what is their sin? And the commander-in-chief said: These are the wives of presbyters who did not honour the presbyters, but after the death of the presbyter took husbands, and for this cause they are thus chastised here.