Chapter 10
Jehovih said: When the Gods have fulfilled their time in earth and heaven, behold, I put them away.
And at the time of their going, behold, I open the doors of heaven, and I call down the angels and send them abroad over the earth. And the earth becomes overrun with miracles. ||
Kosmon said: Let the wise man and the prophet consider the signs of the Almighty! Two extremes forerun the change of the Gods and Saviors in heaven: These are, extreme disbelief and extreme belief. The first denies all Gods, and even the person of the Creator; the second runs after the spirits of the dead, consulting seers and oracles.
Esfoma said: These signs are my signs. When these come, behold, the Almighty has a new deliverance on hand.
None can stop Him, nor hold up the Gods, Lords and Saviors of the past against Jehovih.
I speak in the wind, and man says: Behold, something is in the wind; || the Gods are at work; a new light breaks in upon the understanding of men.
Out of the tumult, Jehovih rises supreme in every cycle.
He leads forth a few who know Him and establishes them as a separate people in the world.
Uz said: And at the time of Jehovih’s triumph, I come and make myths out of the deposed Gods and Saviors.
Then I stretch forth my hand against the libraries and houses of ancient records, and I destroy them.
And man is compelled to give up the things of old, and to look around him, and rouse himself up to the ways of the Almighty.
O if only the prophets would apply my lessons of the past, in order to foretell the future.
Behold, there is no mystery in heaven and earth. They march right on; cycle follows cycle, summer follows winter.
In the overthrow of the departing Gods, behold, there is the beginning of a new springtime in Jehovih’s seasons.
He plants a new tree in His garden; it is a tree of new light for the righteous.
His chosen go out, away from the fleshpots of the past, and they have neither kings nor emperors; only the Almighty!
Into the wilderness they go forth, persecuted and beset on all sides by the followers of the mythical Gods.