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Life of Adam and Eve 42

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(42.1) For in no wise can you receive any until the last days,

2(42.2) after 550 years have passed.

3(42.3) Then the most loving king of God will come upon the earth to resurrect the body of Adam, and, with him, the bodies of all the dead. The very Son of God, when he comes, will be baptized in the river Jordan, and when he comes forth from the water of the Jordan, he will then anoint all who believe in him with the oil of his mercy.

4(42.4) This oil of mercy will be from generation to generation on those who are reborn of water and the Holy Spirit into eternal life.

5(42.5) Then, the most loving Son of God will descend into the earth and lead your father, Adam, back into paradise to the tree of mercy. [End Gospel of Nicodemus interpolation.]

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.