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22. "'For indeed they discourse with me with words of peace, though they plot
wrath with craft.

23. "'They opened their chops wide against me and said: Well indeed, our eyes have
filled our sight with him.
24. "'Thou hast seen, O Lord. Keep not silence, O Lord, withdraw not thyself from
me.
25. "'Arise, O Lord, and give heed to my vindication, give heed to my vengeance, my
God and my Lord.

26. "'Judge me, O Lord, according to thy justice; let them not rejoice over me, my
God.
27. "'And let them not say: Well done, our soul. Let them not say: We have
consumed him.

28. "'Let them be put to shame and be scorned, who rejoice at my mischance. Let
them be clothed with shame and disgrace who speak boastingly against me.
29. "'Let them who desire my justification, exult and rejoice and let them who desire
the peace of his slave, say: May the Lord be great and arise.
30. "'My tongue will exult over thy justification and over thy honour all the day
long.'"

CHAPTER 52
1. When James then had said this, Jesus said unto him: "Well said, finely, James. This is the
solution of the ninth repentance of Pistis Sophia.
2. Amēn, amēn, I say unto you: Ye shall be the first in the kingdom of heaven before all
invisibles and all gods and rulers who are in the thirteenth æon and in the twelfth æon;
and not only ye, but also every one who shall accomplish my mysteries."

3. And when he had said this, he said unto them: "Understand ye in what manner I
discourse with you?"

4. Mary started forward again and said: "Yea, O Lord, this is what thou didst say unto us
aforetime: 'The last shall be first and the first shall be last.' The first then, who were
created before us, are the invisibles, for indeed they arose before mankind, they and the
gods and the rulers; and the men who shall receive mysteries, will be first into the
kingdom of heaven."
5. Jesus said unto her: "Well said, Mary."