CHAPTER 40
John asketh and receiveth permission to speak.
John came forward, adored the breast of Jesus and said unto him:
- Lord, give ear unto my supplication and let my voice reach unto thee.
“‘2. Turn not away thy face from me; incline thine ear unto me in the day when I am oppressed; quickly give ear to me on the day when I shall cry unto thee.
“‘3. For |66. my days are vanished as smoke and my bones are parched as stone.
“‘4. I am scorched as the grass, and my heart is dried up; for I have forgotten to eat my bread.
“‘5. From the voice of my groaning my bones cleaved to my flesh.
“‘6. I am become as a pelican in the desert; I am become as a screech-owl in the house.
“‘7. I have passed the night watching; I am become as a sparrow alone on the roof.
“‘8. My enemies have reviled me all the day long, and they who honour me, have injured me.
“‘9. For I have eaten ashes instead of my bread and mixed my drink with tears,
“‘10. Because of thy wrath and thy rage; for thou hast lifted me up and cast me down.
“‘11. My days have declined as a shadow, and I am dried up as the grass,
“‘12. But thou, O Lord, thou endurest for ever, and thy remembrance unto the generation of generation[s].
“‘13. Arise and have mercy upon Zion, for the time is come to have mercy upon her; the proper time is come.
“‘14. Thy servants have longed for her stones, and will take pity on her land.
“‘15. And the nations will have fear of the name of the Lord, and the kings of the earth have fear of thy sovereignty.
“‘16. For the Lord will build up Zion and reveal himself in his sovereignty.
“17. He hath regarded the prayer of the humble and hath not despised their supplication.
“‘18. This shall be recorded for another generation, and the people who shall be created will praise the Lord.
“‘19. Because he hath looked down on his holy height; the Lord hath looked down from the heaven on the earth,
“‘20. To hear the sighing |67. of those in chains, to loose the sons of those who are slain,
“‘21. To proclaim the name of the Lord in Zion and his praise in Jerusalem.’
This, my Lord, is the solution of the mystery of the repentance which Pistis Sophia hath uttered.
CHAPTER 41: Jesus commends John
Jesus continued again in the discourse and said unto his disciples:
The emanations of Self-willed again oppressed Pistis Sophia in the chaos and desired to take from her her whole light. and not yet was her commandment accomplished, to lead her out of the chaos, and not yet had the command reached me through the First Mystery, to save her out of the chaos. It came to pass then, when all the material emanations of Self-willed oppressed her, that she cried out and uttered the fifth repentance, saying:
The fifth repentance of Sophia."
‘1. Light of my salvation, I sing praise unto thee in the region of the height and again in the chaos.
“‘2. I sing praise unto thee in my hymn with which I sang praise in the height and with which I sang praise unto thee when I was in the chaos. Let it come into thy presence, and give heed, O Light, to my repentance.
“‘3. For my power is filled up with |68. darkness, and my light hath gone down into the chaos.
“‘4. I am myself become as the rulers of the chaos, who are gone into the darknesses below; I am become as a material body, which hath no one in the height who will save it.
“‘5. I am become also as matters from which their power hath been taken, when they are cast down into the chaos,–[matters] which thou hast not saved, and they are condemned utterly by thy commandment.
“‘6. Now, therefore, have they put me into the darkness below,–in darknesses and matters which are dead and in them [is] no power.
“‘7. Thou hast brought thy commandment upon me and all things which thou hast decreed.
“‘8. And thy spirit hath withdrawn and abandoned me. And moreover by thy commandment the emanations of my eon have not helped me and have hated me and separated themselves from me, and yet am I not utterly destroyed.
“‘9. And my light is diminished in me, and I have cried up to the light with all the light in me, and I have stretched forth my hands unto thee.
“‘10. Now, therefore, O Light, wilt thou not accomplish thy commandment in the chaos, and will not the deliverers, who come according to thy commandment, arise in the darkness and come and be disciples for thee’?
“‘11. Will they not utter the mystery of thy name in the chaos?
“‘12. Or will they not rather utter thy name in a matter of the chaos, in which thou wilt not [thyself] purify?
“‘13. But I have sung praises unto thee, O Light, and my repentance will reach unto thee |69. in the height.
“‘14. Let thy light come upon me,
“‘15. For they have taken my light, and I am in pain on account of the Light from the time when I was emanated. And when I had looked into the height to the Light, then I looked down below at the light-power in the chaos; I rose up and went down.
“‘16. Thy commandment came upon me, and the terrors, which thou didst decree for me, have brought me into delusion.
“‘17. And they have surrounded me, in numbers as water, they have laid hold on me together all my time.
“‘18. And by thy commandment thou hast not suffered my fellow-emanations to help me, nor hast thou suffered my pair to save me out of my afflictions.’
“This then is the fifth repentance which Pistis Sophia hath uttered in the chaos, when all the material emanations of Self-willed had continued and oppressed her.”
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