The Household of God
Volume 2
Rise and spiritual prime of the first world empire Hanoch
- Chapter 173 -
THE THIRD STAIRWAY IN LAMECH'S PALACE; ITS OBSTACLES FOR THE THREE MESSENGERS
When the three had fully reached the third stairway, they began to marvel inwardly at the great cunning of Lamech, for they were unprepared for anything like this.
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And I Myself told them nothing in their hearts either so that on this extraordinary occasion they might all the more utilize the power of wisdom given them by Me. How, then, did Lamech block this third stairway?
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Each step was occupied by little infants and between the infants naked mothers with lacerated breasts and badly disheveled hair were placed. The children were tied down with ropes to the steps and the mothers were hung to the steps by iron bonds round the loins with the aid of strong chains.
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When the mothers saw the three mighty ones, they began to curse themselves and the three as follows:
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"From which hell of the worst of all satans did you emerge so that we must here be tortured so abominably, through our horrible torture and distress barring your access to the nefarious Lamech?
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"You call yourselves messengers of Jehovah! O you horrible blasphemers! If Jehovah is like you, is not our monster Lamech in comparison a light evening breeze despite all his inhuman wickedness?
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"What did the poor maids whom Lamech's immense cruelty had seduced and enticed for his basest designs ever do to you for you to mercilessly chase them out into the most horrible sewers and puddles, there to perish both in body and in soul?
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"O you miserable messengers of the lowest hell, as once the great Farak described it, despite your deeds of which all devils taken together are incapable you dare to call yourselves messengers of Jehovah?
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"Lamech slew his two brothers and should thus have deserved death twofold;
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"But Jehovah said to Lamech: 'Whoever wants to slay Lamech, shall be revenged seventy-seven times!'
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"Like us, these poor maids have never killed a fly and you, as would-be messengers of Jehovah's eternal love, have destroyed them in the most cruel, miserable and abominable manner and martyred to death; for you let the anyway threefold unfortunate ones be dragged by their hair into this house of depravity by Lamech's myrmidons whom, to top it all, for their cruelty you even made free and happy!
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"O you miserable, super-cruel messengers of Jehovah, if you intend to convert the monster Lamech and turn him again to Jehovah, why did you not at first try to convert the most unfortunate maids before you let them be killed so cruelly?
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"Oh look, you are not concerned about Jehovah, Whose messengers you pretend to be, but only about ruling the poor peoples in the depth of all mire!
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"Look at us, how for your sake we have had to linger under the most abominable pressure of Lamech, miserable and horribly tortured! Would you not like to call us liars, too, and then ruin and kill us in the puddles and sewers?
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"If you miserable ones want this, loose our fetters; because for loving mothers no death and no hell can be more painful than this our present condition before you!
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"If you do not want this, then let us perish here and step across us and our poor innocent children up to the abominable dwelling of Lamech and turn him into an even worse devil than he anyway is!
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"Accursed be the day that gave us this miserable life! Curse on our begetters and curse on the Creator Who called us into being for such misery, and eternal curse on you who have come to increase our misery!
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"If you can, destroy us forever; but do not torture us more than we are anyway tortured!"
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Here the three were taken aback and no longer knew what to do; for the speech of the chained women and the crying and screaming of the children began to mightily touch them to the heart.