virtues to which they are opposed that the examination of the deceased chiefly consists.
The hundred and twenty-fifth chapter is entitled, "Book of entering into the Hall of the Two-fold Maāt:[1] the person parts from his sins that he may see the divine faces." The deceased begins: "Hail to you, ye lords of the Two-fold Maāt, and hail to thee, great god, lord of the Two-fold Maāt! I have come to thee, my lord, I have brought myself to see thy glories. … I know thy name, and I know the names of thy forty-two gods who are with thee in the Hall of the Two-fold Maāt, who live by the punishment of the wicked, and devour their blood on that day of weighing the words in presence of Unnefer, the triumphant." A good deal which follows in the Turin copy is not contained in all the manuscripts. But the following extracts deserve mention. "I have brought you Law,[2] and subdued for you iniquity. I am not a doer of fraud and iniquity against men. I am not a doer of that which is crooked
- ↑ Maāt is here and elsewhere put in the dual. The reason of this is not quite clear. The word used to be translated "the two Truths;" according to M. de Rougé, "la double Justice." Dr. Ludwig Stern argues from the analogy of other Eastern expressions that the dual form here signifies "Right and Wrong." I rather adhere to M. Grébaut's view, that the realm of Maāt, being traversed by the sun, is thereby divided, like heaven and earth, into two parts.
- ↑ The kings of Egypt are constantly represented with the image or emblem of Maāt in their hands as a religious offering.
