In the Book of Tobit the normal Old Testament doctrine is taught; so, e.g., when Tobit prays: “Command my spirit to be taken from me, that I may be released from off the earth and become earth” (iii. 6); in the same verse Sheol is spoken of as “the everlasting place,” it is a place of “darkness” (iv. 10), and “below the earth” (xiii. 2). In the Book of Judith there is only one reference to the future life, but the passage is an important one as it witnesses to a development of thought similar to that found in the Greek text of Ecclesiasticus vii. 17, xxi. 9, 10, where Hades is a place of punishment; the passage is xvi. 17—Judith speaks as follows: Woe to the nations that rise up against my race; The Lord Almighty will take vengeance of them in the day of judgement, To put fire and worms in their flesh; And they shall weep and feel their pain for ever. Here it is clear that the body is conceived of as suffering anguish hereafter. Something similar to this is adumbrated in the Prayer of Manasses, verse 12. It says here: ... Neither, in Thy continual anger against me, Lay up evil in store for me; Nor pass Thou sentence against me When I am in the lowest parts of the earth. In the Pharisaic recension of Ecclesiasticus we may also note one or two occurrences of development of doctrine; thus after xix. 17 the following words are added: The fear of the Lord is the beginning of acceptance by Him, And wisdom will gain love from Him. The knowledge of the commandments of the Lord is life-giving instruction; And they who do the things that are pleasing unto Him shall pluck the fruit of the tree of immortality. Again, reward hereafter for right doing in this life is taught in the addition to xviii. 22: For the reward of God abideth to eternity. Two instances of merely verbal additions point in the same direction; in xxi. 10 the second addition in the ordinary Greek text runs: And at the end thereof is the pit of Hades;