Pistis Sophia — G. R. S. Mead — Section 60
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Work: Pistis Sophia
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G. R. S. Mead 1896 — retained OCR sections
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"'But as for me. I have cried unto thee, 0 lord, and my prayer shall reach thee early in the morning ; turn not thy face far from me. For, as for me, I am poor, I am in misery from my childhood. When I exalted myself, I was abased ; but I have risen up again. Thy wrath is come upon me, and thy fears have troubled me. They have surrounded me like water, they have seized upon me the whole day long. My comrades hast thou put away from me, and also my acquaintances, in my misery.' " This is the interpretation of the mystery of the fifth repentance, recited by Pistis Sophia, when she w…
- Source
- Pistis Sophia; a Gnostic gospel (with extracts from the books of the Saviour appended) originally tr. from Greek into Coptic and now for the first time Englished from Schwartze's L
- Rights
- Public domain
- Reading language
- eng
- Source language
- eng
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