The Apocalypse of the Holy Mother of God Concerning the Chastisements 33

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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III. Then the commander-in-chief, Michael, commanded the Western angels that revelation should be made, and Hades opened, and she saw those who were chastised in Hades: and there lay there a multitude of men and women, and there was a great lamentation. And the highly favoured one asked the commander-in-chief: Who are these and what is their sin? And the commander-in-chief said: These, all holy, are those who did not worship the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit and for this cause they are thus chastised here.