Saturday, September 2, 2023

The Book of Mary's Repose Identifying Jesus as the Angel of Death from Exodus 12

  

The Christ Angel Continues to Explain his True Nature: The Angel of Death

 

24) Now then, Mary, give the sign to the apostles that so they will tell the mystery to those who believe. The one to whom it is given will hear: thus will my name and my power be known. And I want to who them, Mary, what power was given to me from God the Father when he sent me into the world to destroy sinners and to bless the just.

25) I am the third that was created, and I am not the Son (alt. B: “I am the one who was created third in divinity, and I am the Son”); there is no one greater than me. I am the one who destroyed every firstborn of Egypt because of the great evil that was in them, and because of the great cry, and because of the blood that was shed by them. Ask the people of the earth, Mary, why I destroyed all the firstborn in Egypt. Ask those who say, ‘There is no one who saw us, and there is no one who knows us,’ as they should know. Ask then those who believe and trust in their treasures, and they will tell you why I destroyed all the firstborn of Egypt, so that they ate many lentils in the teeth of their children [?], and they will always sin, and affliction will remain on their children. And behold, these who say, ‘Nevertheless, we are.’ For this mystery is among us together, with the blood of those who were destroyed. This I tell you, Mary, so that you know about these things. (“The Book of Mary’s Repose,” in The Dormition and Assumption of the Virgin Mary [trans. Stephen J. Shoemaker; Apocryphes: Collection De Poche De L’Aelac 17; Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2023], 74)

 

Elsewhere in the text, we learn the name of the angel:

 

. . . I have spoken to you, who is before me. Her then my name: ‘Adonai’el. (Ibid., 82)

 

Note that the name is a combination of both Adonai and El.

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