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Lord, hearken that I may discourse in openness, thou who hast said unto us: 'Who hath
ears to hear, let him hear.'

3. "Concerning the word which thou hast spoken unto Philip: 'It is thou and Thomas and
Matthew on whom it hath been enjoined--to you three by the First Mystery, to write all
the discourses of the kingdom of the Light and thereto to bear witness '; hearken,
therefore, that I may proclaim the solution of this word. This is what thy light-power
prophesied aforetime through Moses: 'By two or three witnesses shall every matter be
established.' The three witnesses are Philip and Thomas and Matthew."

4. It came to pass then, when Jesus had heard this word, that he said: "Well said, Mary,
this is the solution of the word.

5. Now, therefore, do thou, Philip, come forward and proclaim the solution of the fifth

repentance of Pistis Sophia, and thereafter take thy seat and write all the discourses
which I shall speak, until the number of thy portion which thou hast to write of the
words of the kingdom of the Light is completed. Then shalt thou come forward and
speak what thy spirit shall understand. But do thou then now proclaim the solution of
the fifth repentance of Pistis Sophia."
6. And Philip answered and said unto Jesus: "My Lord, hearken that I may speak the

solution of her repentance. For thy power hath prophesied aforetime concerning it
through David in the eighty-seventh Psalm, saying:

7. "' Lord, God of my salvation, by day and by night have I cried unto thee.

8. "'Let my weeping come before thee; incline thine ear to my supplication, O Lord.
9. "'For my soul is full of evil, my life hath drawn nigh to the world below.
10. "'I am counted among them who have gone down into the pit; I am become as a
man who hath no helper.
11. "'The free among the dead are as the slain who are thrown away and sleep in
tombs, whom thou no more rememberest, and they are destroyed through thy

hands.
12. "'They have set me in a pit below, in darkness and shadow of death.
13. "'Thy wrath hath settled down upon me and all thy cares have come upon me.
(Selah.)
14. "'Thou hast put away mine acquaintances far from me; they have made me an

abomination for them. They have abandoned me, and I cannot go forth.
15. "'My eye hath become dim in my misery; I have cried unto thee, O Lord, the
whole day and have stretched forth my hands unto thee.
16. "'Wilt thou not surely work thy wonders on the dead? Will not surely the
physicians arise and confess thee?

17. "'Will they not surely proclaim thy name in the tombs,