Apocryphal books (New Testament); Christian heresies -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600; Gnosticism
But answered Philippos, said he to Jesus, My Lord, hear that I may say
the explanation of her repentance: for thy Power prophesied concerning
it by David once saying in the eighty-seventh [67^b] psalm; O Lord God
of my salvation I cried up unto thee in the day with the night: let my
prayer come in to thy presence. Incline thine ear, O Lord, unto my
supplication, because my soul was filled with evil, my life draweth near
into Amente, they numbered me with those who are going down unto the
pit. I became as a man who hath not helper: free among those who are
dead as wounded (ones), being cast (away) sleeping in the tombs, these
whom thou rememberedst not any more, and they, they perished out of thy
hands. They put me in a pit below, in darkness with the shade of the
death thy wrath was firm upon me, and all thy cares came upon me.
Diapsalma. Thou causedst those who know me to be distant from me, thou
lettest me be to them for abomination: [68^a] they left me and I went
not (away). Mine eye is weak out of my poverty: I cried up unto thee O
Lord, all the day. I spread my hands up unto thee. Wilt thou make thy
wonder in those who are dead? Are not the physicians those who will
arise and confess to thee? Will they be saying thy name in the tombs and
thy righteousness in a land which thou forgottest? But I cried up unto
thee, O Lord, and my prayer will catch thee at the hour of early (day).
Turn not thy face away from me because I am poor; beg in tribulations
since my youth. But having been exalted, I humbled myself and I arose.
Thine angers came upon me, and thy fears disturbed me. They surrounded
me as water, they laid hold on me all the day: they caused my fellows to
be distant from me, and those who [68^b] know me, away from my misery.
This therefore is the explanation of the mystery of the fifth repentance
which said the Pistis Sophia, they having afflicted her in the Chaos.
It happened therefore, Jesus having heard these words, saying them
Philippos, said he, Well (done) Philippos the beloved. Now therefore
come, sit (down) and write thy part of every word which I shall say, and
with the things which I shall do, with everything which thou wilt see.
And at that hour sat down Philippos, he wrote.
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