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22. "'And when I was constrained, I sang praises to the Light. It saved me out of all
my afflictions.

23. "'Thou sentest thy stream; it gave me power and saved me out of all my
afflictions.
24. "'I will give thanks unto thee, O Light, that thou hast saved me, and for thy
wondrous works in the race of men.'
25. "This then is the song which Pistis Sophia hath uttered in the midst of the four-and-
twenty invisibles, desiring that they should know all the wondrous works which I had

done for her, and desiring that they should know that I have gone to the world of men
and have given them the mysteries of the Height. Now, therefore, who is exalted in his
thought, let him come forward and say the solution of the song which Pistis Sophia hath
uttered."

CHAPTER 82
1. It came to pass then, when Jesus had finished saying these words, that Philip came
forward and said: "Jesus, my Lord, my thought is exalted, and I have understood the
solution of the song which Pistis Sophia hath uttered. The prophet David hath
prophesied concerning it aforetime in the one-hundred-and-sixth Psalm, saying:

2. "'Give ye thanks unto the Lord, for he is good, for his grace is eternal.
3. "'Let the delivered of the Lord say this, for it is he who hath delivered them out
of the hand of their foes.
4. "'He hath gathered them together out of their lands, from the east and from the
west and from the north and from the sea.
5. "'They wandered round in the desert, in a waterless country; they found not the

way to the city of their dwelling-place.
6. "'Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.
7. "'He saved them out of their necessities. They cried unto the Lord and he
hearkened unto them in their affliction.

8. "'He led them on a straight way, that they might go to the region of their
dwelling-place.
9. "'Let them give thanks unto the Lord for his graciousness and his wondrous
works unto the children of men.
10. "'For he hath satisfied a hungering soul; he hath filled a hungering soul with good
things,

11. "'Them who sat in darkness and the shadow of death, who were fettered in
misery and iron.
12. "'For they had provoked the word of God and made wroth the determination of
the Most High.