Apocryphal books (New Testament); Christian heresies -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600; Gnosticism
Answered the Saviour, said he to [318^a] Maria with all the disciples.
Yet I shall reveal to you all the greatnesses of the Height from inward
part of the inward parts even until the outward part of the outward
parts, that ye may become being complete in every knowledge and with
every pleroma with the height of the heights with the depth of the
depths. Continued also Maria, said she to the Saviour, My Lord, behold,
we knew in boldness in an exactness plainly that thou broughtest the
keys of the Mysteries of the kingdom of the Light, these which are wont
to forgive the sins of the souls and purify them, and make them pure
light and take them unto the Light.
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of the Fourth Document follows with ornament below.]
THE FOURTH DOCUMENT
A PART OF THE BOOKS OF THE SAVIOUR
[318^b] It happened therefore, they having crucified our Lord Jesus, He
rose out of those who are dead on his third day, gathered unto him his
disciples, they prayed him, saying, Our Lord be compassionate to us,
because we forsook father and mother with all the World, we followed
thee.
Then Jesus stood (up) with his disciples at the water of the Ocean and
he invoked with this prayer saying, Hear me, my Father, the Father of
every fatherhood, the boundless Light: a e ē i o u ō i a o a o i ō i a
psinother— ther(i)nops—nōpsither—zagourē—pagouri—nethmomaoth—
nepsiomaoth—marakhakhtha—thobarraban—tharnakhakhan—
zorokothora—Ieou—sabaoth: But these saying them Jesus, Thomas with
Andreas with Iakobos with Simon the Kananites they were being on the
west, their faces being turned unto the east. [319^a] But Philippos with
Bartholomaios, they were being on the south, being turned unto north.
But the remainder of disciples with the women disciples, they were
standing behind Jesus. But Jesus was standing at the altar, and cried
out Jesus, turned him(self) about it unto the four corners of the World
with his disciples, all being wrapped in linen garments, saying, i a o i
a o (written above) i a o. This is its (his, MS) interpretation i ō t a,
The Universe came out alpha, They will turn them. ō, Will become the
completion of all the completions. But these he having said them Jesus,
said he, Iaphtha iaphtha mounaēr, mounaēr, ermanouēr, ermanouēr, which
is this, O Father of every fatherhood of the Boundless Ones, thou shalt
hear me concerning my disciples whom I brought into thy presence,
because that they shall believe every word of thy truths: [319^b] and do
thou everything which I shall cry up unto thee concerning them: because
I know the name of the Father of the Treasury of the Light. Again also
cried out Jesus, who Aberamenthō is, saying the name of the Father of
the Treasury of the Light, and said he, Let all the mysteries of the
Rulers with the authorities, with the Angels with the Archangels, with
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