The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs 88
Naphtali 3
Keeping silence in purity of heart enables one to hold fast God's will and cast away the devil's will. Themes: The Watchers and Their Fall
1e ye not therefore eager to corrupt your doings through excess, or with empty words to deceive your souls; because if ye keep silence in purity of heart, ye shall be able to hold fast the will of God, and to cast away the will of the devil.
2 Sun and moon and stars change not their order; so also ye shall not change the law of God in the disorderliness of your doings.
3 Nations went astray, and forsook the Lord, and changed their order, and followed stones and stocks, following after spirits of error.
4 But ye shall not be so, my children, recognising in the firmament, in the earth, and in the sea, and in all created things, the Lord who made them all, that ye become not as Sodom, which changed the order of its nature, in like manner also the Watchers changed the order of their nature, whom also the Lord cursed at the flood, and for their sakes made desolate the earth, that it should be uninhabited and fruitless.
Did You Know?
Keeping silence in purity of heart enables one to hold fast God's will and cast away the devil's will.
Sun and moon and stars change not their order, teaching that God's law must not be disordered by human doings.
Nations went astray, forsook the Lord, changed their order, and followed stones and stocks after spirits of error.
Sodom changed the order of its nature just as the Watchers changed theirs and were cursed at the flood.
For the Watchers' sakes the earth was made desolate so it should be uninhabited and fruitless.
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