Life of Adam and Eve 47

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(47.1) Then all the angels, playing trumpets, said: "Blessed are you, Lord, for you have taken pity on your creature."

2(47.3) Then Seth saw the hand of the Lord outstretched, holding Adam. He handed him over to Michael, saying:

3(47.5) "Let him be in your care until the day of retribution, in supplication until the last years when I shall change his mourning into joy. Then he will sit on the throne of him who beguiled him."

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.