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Rh have been stationed in Paradise in the body? One of them answered and said unto them, I am Enoch, who was translated hither by the word of the Lord; and he that is with me is Elijah the Tishbite, who was taken up in a fiery chariot. Here and hitherto we have not tasted death, but are reserved to the coming of Antichrist, and we shall fight with him by divine signs and prodigies; and when we have been slain by him in Jerusalem, after three days and a-half, we are again to be taken up alive, in the clouds.

while these things were talked of with the saints, Enoch and Elijah, behold, there came up another, a very wretched man, bearing on his shoulders the sign of the cross. When they saw him all the saints said unto him, Who art thou? for thy appearance is that of a robber. And what is the sign which thou bearest on thy shoulders? He answered and said to them, Ye have said truly, for I was a robber, and did all evil upon earth; and the Jews crucified me along with Jesus, and I saw the miracles which were done to the creatures by the cross of Jesus that was crucified, and I believed Him to be the creator of all creatures, and the omnipotent