APIS Translation (English)
". . . are adulterers. The elders are false witnesses. Their mouths are murderers. The elders utter false words. The two calves of gold are on high places of Bethel. The serpent of bronze is in Nesthan. The pillar of Baal is in Samaria . . . deals in the evil eye in the valley of the sons of Hinnom. The calf of gold is in Horeb. Israel plays the harlot in the land of Moab. Cain kills, being disobedient. The watchmen commit violence. Ham derides the nakedness of his father. The men of Shinar build the tower. Chedorlaomar makes war. The Philistines oppress strangers. Esau is angry. Dan is zealous. The wife of the Egyptian is importunate. Pharaoh is merciless. Adonijah is overweening. Saul rends the mantle of the prophet. Absalom hates his father. Hadar the Edomite is an adversary. Ahab is a robber. Jezebel pursues the prophet. Manasseh pours out the blood of the just. Nebuchadnezzar kindles a furnace of fire and those who hope in the Lord are thrown into it. The presidents bring accusations against Daniel. Elihu speaks shameless words. On account of these things the world is troubled, the devil is vain, the dragnet is spread out, the net is cast, the hooks are thrown, a pit is dug, a snare is prepared at the time of my safety. All these things being so, my beloved brethren, let us not go forth in a great concourse of words. For, indeed, the Scripture is wont to say "Godliness in a sufficiency." And he also saith in the Apostle "Five words are better than ten thousand." Who is it who hath sowed, who hath become greater than Jesus Christ? But I am wont to take a witness for myself whether our Lord hath sowed or not. Come, Matthew, Jesus shall tell us. He said to his apostles "He who soweth the good seed in the son of man", in order that he may know that he is the one who himself sows his own. In what way are they greater than he, his own whom he has sown after the twelve. They will seek the holy spirit who hath brought them to the land to come. He hath given gifts to those who believe in him, as Paul hath said "He hath given gifts to men." The Scripture saith "All good cometh from him." Jeremiah also himself saith "Dig up thorns and plant the pure wheat." In all these things he teacheth everyone about our Lord, that he is the one who hath rooted out sin from the world. He hath planted the seed of life in . . . and the nations have believed, bringing forth fruit until they become a hundred, some sixty, some others thirty, that ye may know that his own have become greater than he. The one who lays up for himself when he is in need, this thing it is that we know, If a man strives to lay up goods and they are not left to him, what shall it profit him? This is the very way of the devil, who hath cursed all mankind through the first sin. Our Lord, our Saviour, hath cursed all mankind through the first sin. Our Lord, our Saviour, hath come with speed. He hath snatched us from his serpents (?). He hath cast upon us the water of baptism. But he hath purified us. We have received of his body and his blood. God hath been reconciled to his likeness. The sins of all the world have been pardoned through the gifts of God.