Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life
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C. 3600, a religious text, which afterwards formed chapter 30B of the Bookof the Dead, was found inscribed on an iron slab; in the handwriting ofthe god Thoth, by the royal son or prince Herut[=a]t[=a]f. [Footnote:See _Chapters of Coming Forth by Day_, Translation, p. 80. ] The originalpurpose of the composition of this text cannot be said, but there islittle doubt that it was intended, to benefit the deceased in thejudgment, and, if we translate its title literally, it was intended toprevent h...is heart from "falling away from him in the underworld. " In thefirst part of it the deceased, after adjuring his heart, says, "Maynaught stand up to oppose me in the judgment; may there be no oppositionto me in the presence of the sovereign princes; may there be no partingof thee from me in the presence of him that keepeth the Balance!... Maythe officers of the court of Osiris (in Egyptian _Shenit_), who form theconditions of the lives of men, not cause my name to stink! Let [thejudgment] be satisfactory unto me, let the hearing be satisfactory untome, and let me have joy of heart at the weighing of words.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
C. 3600, a religious text, which afterwards formed chapter 30B of the Bookof the Dead, was found inscribed on an iron slab; in the handwriting ofthe god Thoth, by the royal son or prince Herut[=a]t[=a]f. [Footnote:See _Chapters of Coming Forth by Day_, Translation, p. 80. ] The originalpurpose of the composition of this text cannot be said, but there islittle doubt that it was intended, to benefit the deceased in thejudgment, and, if we translate its title literally, it was intended toprevent h...is heart from "falling away from him in the underworld. " In thefirst part of it the deceased, after adjuring his heart, says, "Maynaught stand up to oppose me in the judgment; may there be no oppositionto me in the presence of the sovereign princes; may there be no partingof thee from me in the presence of him that keepeth the Balance!... Maythe officers of the court of Osiris (in Egyptian _Shenit_), who form theconditions of the lives of men, not cause my name to stink! Let [thejudgment] be satisfactory unto me, let the hearing be satisfactory untome, and let me have joy of heart at the weighing of words.
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