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CHAPTER 2
1. is he who has crucified the world, and who has not the world to crucify him."
2. The apostles answered with one voice, saying: "O Lord, teach us the way to crucify the
world, that it may not crucify us, so that we are destroyed and loose our lives."
3. The living Jesus answered: "He who has crucified it is he who has found my word and

has fulfilled it according to the will of him who has sent me."
4. The apostles answered, saying: “Speak to us, O Lord, that we may hear thee. We have
followed thee with our whole hearts. We have left behind father and mother, we have
left behind vineyards and fields, we have left behind goods and the greatness of kings,
and we have followed thee, so that thou shouldst teach us to know the life of thy father

who has sent thee".
5. The living Jesus answered and said: "The life of my Father is this: that you receive your
soul from the race of understanding mind, and that it ceases to be earthly and becomes
understanding through that which I say to you in the course of my discourse, so that you
fulfill it and are saved from the archon of this aeon and his persecutions, to which there
is no end.

6. But you, my disciples, hasten to receive my word with certainty so that you know it, in
order that the archon of this aeon may not fight … [continued]