1 And Sedrach said to the archangel Michael, “Hear me, strong protector; help me and intercede that God may be merciful to the world.”
2 And falling upon their faces, they besought God and said, “Lord, teach us in what way and through what repentance man may be saved, or by what labor.”
3 God said, “By repentances, supplications, and liturgies, through draining tears and fervant groanings.
4 Do you not know that my prophet David (was saved) because of tears, and that the rest were saved in one moment?
5 You know, Sedrach, that there are nations which have no law, yet fulfill the law; they are not baptized, but my divine spirit enters them and they are converted to my baptism, and I receive them with my righteous ones in the bosom of Abraham.
6 And there are some baptized with my baptism and anointed with my divine myrrh, but they have become full of despair and they will not change their mind.
7 Yet I await them with much pity and much rich mercy, that they may repent.
8 But they do that which my divinity hates, and they did not hear the wise man who asked and said, ‘We in no way justify the sinner.’
9 Are you not at all aware that it is written, ‘And those who have repented will not see punishment’?
10 And they heard neither the apostles nor my word in the Gospels and they cause sorrow to my angels, and of a certainty in my meetings and in my liturgies they do not heed my angel and they do not stand in my holy churches; they stand and do not prostrate (themselves) in fear and trembling but they pronounce long words‘ which neither I nor my angels accept.”