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===Punishments and rewards=== The work proceeds to describe the punishments that await the wicked. Many of the punishments are overseen by Ezrael the Angel of Wrath (most likely the angel [[Azrael]], although possibly a corrupt reference to the angel [[Sariel]]). The angel [[Uriel]] [[Universal resurrection|resurrects the dead into new bodies]] so that they can be either rewarded or tormented physically.<ref>{{harvnb|Bauckham|1998|pp=221–223}}; {{harvnb|Buchholz|1988|pp=292–296, 316}}.</ref><ref name="burge2010">{{cite journal |last1=Burge |first1=Stephen R. |date=2010 |title=ZR'L, the Angel of Death and the Ethiopic Apocalypse of Peter |url=https://www.academia.edu/224687 |journal=[[Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha]] |volume=19 |issue=3 |pages=217–224 |doi= 10.1177/0951820710364880}}</ref> Punishments in hell according to the vision include: {{columns-list|colwidth=40em| * Blasphemers are hanged by the tongue.<ref name="punishment-bundle" /> * Those who deny justice are set in a pit of fire.<ref name="punishment-bundle" /> * Women who adorn themselves for the purpose of adultery are hung by their hair over a bubbling mire. The men who had adulterous relationships with them are hung by their genitals next to them.<ref name="punishment-bundle" /> * Murderers and their accomplices are tormented by venomous creatures and numberless worms.<ref name="punishment-bundle" /> * Women who aborted their children are in a pit of excrement up to their throats, and their children shoot a "flash of fire" into their eyes.<ref name="punishment-bundle" /> * Parents who committed infanticide have the mothers' breast milk congeal into flesh-devouring animals that torment both parents. Their dead children are delivered to a caretaking angel.<ref name="punishment-bundle" /> * Persecutors and betrayers of the righteous have half their body set on fire, are cast into a dark pit, and their entrails are eaten by a worm that never sleeps.<ref name="punishment-bundle" /> * Those who slander and doubt God's righteousness gnaw their tongues, are tormented with hot iron, and have their eyes burnt.<ref name="punishment-bundle" /> * Liars whose lies caused the death of martyrs have their lips cut off, with fire in their body and entrails.<ref name="punishment-bundle" /> * Rich people who neglected the poor are clothed in filthy rags and pierced by sharp burning stones.<ref name="punishment-bundle" /><!-- (Eth.) a sharp pillar of fire, but Beck prefers Akhmim --> * Those who lend money and charge interest stand up to their knees in a lake of foul matter and blood.<ref name="punishment-bundle" /> * Men who take on the role of women in a sexual way, and lesbians, fall from the precipice of a great cliff repeatedly.<ref name="punishment-bundle" /> * Makers of idols either scourge themselves with fire whips (Ethiopic) or they beat each other with fire rods (Akhmim).<ref name="punishment-bundle" /><!-- Czachesz thinks the fire rods thing is from an unspecified punishment in Akhmim, but other scholars clearly think it was the makers of idols. --> * Those who forsook God's commandments and heeded demons burn in flames.<ref name="punishment-bundle" /> * Those who do not honor their parents fall into a stream of fire repeatedly.<ref name="punishment-bundle" /> * Those who do not heed the counsel of their elders are attacked by flesh-devouring birds.<ref name="punishment-bundle" /> * Women who had premarital sex have their flesh torn to pieces.<ref name="punishment-bundle" /> * Disobedient slaves gnaw their tongues unceasingly.<ref name="punishment-bundle" /> * Those who give alms hypocritically are rendered blind and deaf, and fall upon coals of fire.<ref name="punishment-bundle" /> * Sorcerers are hung on a wheel of fire.<ref name="punishment-bundle">{{harvnb|Bauckham|1998|pp=166–167}}; {{harvnb|Czachesz|2003|pp=111–114}}; {{harvnb|Buchholz|1988|pp=306–311}}.</ref> }} The vision of heaven is shorter than the depiction of hell, and described more fully in the Akhmim version. In heaven, people have pure milky white skin, curly hair, and are generally beautiful. The earth blooms with everlasting flowers and spices. People wear shiny clothes made of light, like the angels. Everyone sings in choral prayer.<ref>{{harvnb|Beck|2019|pp=88–92}}.</ref><ref name="Adamik2003">{{cite book |chapter=The Description of Paradise in the Apocalypse of Peter |last=Adamik |first=Tamás |author-link=Tamás Adamik |editor1-first=Jan N. |editor1-last=Bremmer |editor1-link=Jan N. Bremmer |editor2-first=István |editor2-last=Czachesz |title=The Apocalypse of Peter |date=2003 |publisher=Peeters |isbn=90-429-1375-4 |pages=78–89}}</ref><!-- Adamik is not really on this topic much at all, and more disagreeing with James on the Rainer fragment. But oh well. --> In the Ethiopic version, the account closes with an account of the [[ascension of Jesus]] on the mountain in chapters 15–17. Jesus, accompanied by the prophets [[Moses]] and [[Elijah]], ascends on a cloud to the first heaven, and then they depart to the [[Seven heavens|second heaven]]. While it is an account of the ascension, it includes some parallels to Matthew's account of the [[transfiguration of Jesus]].<ref>{{harvnb|Buchholz|1988|pp=362–375}}.</ref> In the Akhmim fragment, which is set when Jesus was still alive, both the mountain and the two other men are unnamed (rather than being Moses and Elijah), but the men are similarly transfigured into radiant forms.<ref>{{harvnb|Beck|2019|pp=94–95, 100–102}} argues these parallels to the transfiguration were later additions to the Ethiopic version, and the account is best understood as an ascension narrative; while {{harvnb|Lapham|2004|pp=201–205}} argues that the Ethiopic compiler has conflated the transfiguration and ascension together, but is mostly a transfiguration narrative.</ref>
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