CHAPTER 43

1. I also saw the soul of a man, (2) at whose feet several children fell, and ever screamed, (3) and demons, just like dogs, ever fell upon and tore him. 4. And I asked thus: 'What sin was committed by this body, whose soul suffers so severe a punishment?' 5. Srosh the pious, and Adar the angel, said (6) thus: 'This is the soul of that wicked man who, in the world, did not acknowledge his own children.'