Chapter 37

1Then said we unto him: Lord, teach us what shall come to pass thereafter ? And he answered us: In those years and days shall war be kindled upon war ; 1 the four ends of the earth shall be in commotion and fight against each other. Thereafter shall be quakings of clouds (or, clouds of locusts), darkness, and dearth, and persecutions of them that believe on me and against the elect. Thereupon shall come doubt and strife and transgressions against one another. And there shall be many that believe on my name and yet follow after evil and spread vain doctrine. And men shall follow after them and their riches, and be subject unto their pride, and lust for drink, and bribery, and there shall be respect of persons among them. 1 Fragments of a leaf in Coptic exist for this passage.