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14. "Thereafter they lead it into the chaos before Yaldabaōth and his forty-and-nine
demons; and he and his demons, one by one, take vengeance on it another twenty

months.
15. "Thereafter they carry it on to the way of the midst; and every one of the rulers of the
way of the midst taketh vengeance on it another twenty months.
16. "And thereafter they lead it unto the Virgin of Light, that she may judge it. And when the
sphere turneth itself, she handeth it over to her receivers, that they may cast it into the
æons of the sphere. And the servitors of the sphere lead it into a water which is below

the sphere; and it becometh a seething fire and eateth into it until it purifieth it.
17. "And Yaluham, the receiver of Sabaōth, the Adamas, cometh and bringeth the cup with
the water of forgetfulness and handeth it to the soul; and it drinketh and forgetteth all
things and all the regions to which it had gone. And they cast it up into a lame and

deformed body, so that all despise it persistently.
18. "This is the chastisement of the arrogant and overweening man."

19. Thomas said: "A persistent blasphemer, what is his chastisement?"
20. Jesus said: "If the time of such an one is completed through the sphere, the receivers of
Yaldabaōth come after him and bind him by his tongue to a great demon with a horse's

face; they spend three days travelling round with him in the world, and take vengeance
on him.
21. "Thereafter they lead him into the region of the cold and of the snow, and take
vengeance on him there eleven years.

22. "Thereafter they lead him down into the chaos before Yaldabaōth and his forty-and-
nine demons, and every one of his demons taketh vengeance on him another eleven
years.
23. "Thereafter they lead him into the outer darkness until the day when the great ruler
with the dragon's face who encircleth the darkness, shall be judged. And that soul
becometh frozen up [?] and destroyed and dissolved.

24. "This is the judgment of the blasphemer."

CHAPTER 147
1. Bartholomew said: "A man who hath intercourse with a male, what is his vengeance?"
2. Jesus said: "The measure of the man who hath intercourse with males and of the man
with whom he lieth, is the same as that of the blasphemer.
3. "When then the time is completed through the sphere, the receivers of Yaldabaōth

come after their soul, and he with his forty-and-nine demons taketh vengeance on it
eleven years.