ABSTRACT
The author announces the coming of a better world. Iniquity will come to an end and righteousness shall reign. The author sees the proof of what he foretells in the fact that those who hate iniquity, untruth, oppression and pillage, are the first to be iniquitous, untruthful, and spoilers of other people's goods. The continuation is too fragmentary to decide if the author is alluding to the Romans, who bought by the right of the strongest, without money and without price or if he is giving us in this passage some moral teaching on the lines of the parable of the lilies of the field Only those passages made up of more or less complete sentences are translated here. These fragments seem to come from a Jewish-Christian writing, perhaps of the first generation even. The style itself, with its rhetorical questions, is in sharp contrast with that of other texts found at Qumron.
