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16. And all these adventures the First Mystery told to the disciples, that they should come
to pass for Pistis Sophia. And he sat on the Mount of Olives, narrating all these

adventures in the midst of the disciples.

17. And he continued again and said unto them:
18. "And it came to pass again after this, while I was in the world of men and sat in the way,
that is in this region which is the Mount of Olives, before my vesture was sent unto me,
which I had deposited in the four-and-twentieth mystery from the interior, but the first

from the exterior, which is the Great Uncontainable, in which I am enwrapped, and
before I had gone to the Height to receive my second vesture, -- while I sat with you in
this region, which is the Mount of Olives, that the time was completed of which I had
said to Pistis Sophia: 'Adamas and all his rulers will constrain thee.'

CHAPTER 77
1. "It came to pass then, when that time came on,--and I was in the world of men, sitting

with you in this region, which is the Mount of Olives,--that Adamas looked down out of
the twelve æons and looked down at the regions of the chaos and saw his demon power
which is in the chaos, that no light at all was in it, because I had taken its light from it;
and he saw it, that it was dark and could not go to his region, that is to the twelve

moons.
2. Thereon Adamas again remembered Pistis Sophia and became most exceedingly wroth
against her, thinking that it was she who had imprisoned his power in the chaos, and
thinking that it was she who had taken its light from it. And he was exceedingly
embittered; he piled wrath on wrath and emanated out of himself a dark emanation and
another, chaotic and evil, the violent [one], so as through them to harass Pistis Sophia.

3. And he made a dark region in his region, so as to constrain Sophia therein. And he took
many of his rulers; they pursued after Sophia, in order that the two dark emanations
which Adamas had emanated, might lead her into the dark chaos which he had made,
and constrain her in that region and harass her, until they should take her whole light

from her, and Adamas should take the light from Pistis Sophia and give it to the two
dark violent emanations, and they should carry it to the great chaos which is below and
dark, and cast it into his dark power which is chaotic, if perchance it might be able to
come to his region, because it had become exceedingly dark, for I had taken its light-
power from it.
4. "It came to pass then, when they pursued after Pistis Sophia, that she cried out again

and sang praises to the Light, since I had said unto her: 'If thou shalt be constrained and
singest praises unto me, I will come quickly and help thee.' It came to pass then, when