Of the chastisement of the murderer.
Salome answered and said:
"My Lord Iesus, a murderer (who hath never committed any sin but murdering) if he cometh out of the body, what is his chastisement?
Iesus answered and said:
"A murderer who hath never committed any sin but murdering, if his time is completed through the sphere, that he cometh out of the body, the receivers (of Yaldabaōth) come and lead his soul out of the body and bind it by its feet to a great demon (with a horse's face) and he spendeth three days circling round with it in the world.
"Thereafter they lead it into the regions (of the cold and of the snow) and they take vengeance on it there three years and six months.
"Thereafter they lead it down into the chaos before Yaldabaōth[1] and his forty-and-nine demons, and every one of his demons scourgeth it another three years and six months.
"Thereafter they lead it down into the chaos before Persephonē[1] and take vengeance on it with her chastisements another three years and six months.
"Thereafter they carry it on to the way (of the midst) and every one of the rulers (of the way of the midst) taketh vengeance on it with the chastisements of its regions another three years and six months.
"Thereafter they lead it unto the Virgin (of Light) who judgeth the righteous and the sinners, that she may judge it. And when the sphere turneth itself, she commandeth that it shall be cast into the outer darkness until the time when the darkness (of the midst) shall be upraised; it (the sou) will be destroyed and dissolved.
"This is the chastisement of the murderer."
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Definition: In ancient Greek mythology and religion, Persephone (/pərˈsɛfəniː/ pər-SEF-ə-nee; Greek: Περσεφόνη, romanized: Persephónē), also called Kore or Cora (/ˈkɔːriː/ KOR-ee; Greek: Κόρη, romanized: Kórē, lit. 'the maiden'), is the daughter of Zeus and Demeter. She became the queen of the underworld after her abduction by and marriage to her uncle Hades, the king of the underworld.