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Life of Adam and Eve 15

Pseudepigrapha — not canonical

Anderson critical edition of the Latin Vita Adae et Evae (Lechner-Schmidt text, Custis/Anderson/Layton translation, U. Virginia IATH); includes medieval Latin appendices 52–57. These texts are not endorsed in any LDS canon — see framing.

1(15.1) Hearing this, other angels who were under me were unwilling to worship him.

2(15.2) Michael said: 'Worship the image of God. If you do not worship, the Lord God will grow angry with you.'

3(15.3) said: 'If he grows angry with me, I will place my seat above the stars of heaven and I will be like the Most High.'

Public-domain text. Pseudepigrapha are extra-canonical witnesses to the Second Temple and early Christian worlds; read with discernment. The Apocrypha endorsement in D&C 91 does not extend to these texts.