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18. "'And thy righteousness in a land which thou hast forgotten?
19. "'But I have cried unto thee, O Lord, and my prayer shall reach thee early in the

morning.
20. "'Turn not thy face away from me.
21. "'For I am miserable, I am in sorrow from my youth up. And when I had exalted
myself, I humbled myself and arose.
22. "'Thy angers are come upon me and thy terrors have brought me into delusion.
23. "'They have surrounded me as water; they have seized upon me the whole day

long.
24. "'My fellows hast thou kept far from me and my acquaintances from my misery.'
25. "This is then the solution of the mystery of the fifth repentance which Pistis Sophia hath
uttered, when she was oppressed in the chaos."

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1. It came to pass then, when Jesus had heard Philip speak these words, that he said: "Well

said, Philip, well-beloved. Now, therefore, come, take thy seat and write thy portion of
all the discourses which I shall speak, and [of all things which I shall] do, and of all that
thou shalt see."
2. And forthwith Philip sat down and wrote.

3. It came to pass thereafter that Jesus continued again in the discourse and said unto his
disciples: "Then did Pistis Sophia cry to the Light. It forgave her sin, in that she had left
her region and gone down into the darkness. She uttered the sixth repentance, saying
thus:
4. "'I have sung praises unto thee, O Light, in the darkness below.
5. "'Hearken unto my repentance, and may thy light give heed to the voice of my

supplication.
6. "'O Light, if thou thinkest on my sin, I shall not be able to stand before thee, and
thou wilt abandon me,
7. "'For thou, O Light, art my saviour; because of the light of thy name I have had

faith in thee, O Light.
8. "'And my power hath had faith in thy mystery; and moreover my power hath
trusted in the Light when it was among those of the height; and it hath trusted in
it when it was in the chaos below.
9. "'Let all the powers in me trust in the Light when I am in the darkness below, and
may they again trust in the Light if they come into the region of the height.

10. "'For it is [the Light] which hath compassion on us and delivereth us; and a great
saving mystery is in it.