--- title: "Pistis Sophia" author: "Anonymous (Gnostic)" translator: "G. R. S. Mead" languages: [en] shelf: "Hermetica & Gnostics" section: 15 of 132 url: https://scriptura.si/works/pistis-sophia-mead/15/ cite: "Anonymous (Gnostic), tr. G. R. S. Mead, Pistis Sophia, section 15. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/pistis-sophia-mead/15/" --- # Pistis Sophia *Anonymous (Gnostic), tr. G. R. S. Mead* The risen Jesus teaches his disciples the fall and rescue of Sophia, in Mead's 1921 translation. ## 15. First Book · Chapter 33 Source: https://scriptura.si/works/pistis-sophia-mead/15/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/pistis-sophia-mead/15/#p-N [¶0] It came to pass then, when Jesus had spoken these words unto his disciples, that he said unto them: "This is the song of praise which Pistis Sophia uttered in her first repentance, repenting of her sin, and reciting all which had befallen her. Now, therefore: 'Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.'" [¶1] Mary again came forward and said: "My Lord, my indweller of light hath ears, and I hear with my light-power, and thy spirit which is with me, hath sobered me. Hearken then that I may speak concerning the repentance which Pistis Sophia hath uttered, speaking of her sin and all that befell her. Thy light-power hath prophesied thereof aforetime through the prophet David in the sixty-eighth Psalm: [¶2] "'1. Save me, O God, for the waters are come in even unto my soul. [¶3] "'2. I sank, or am submerged, in the slime of the abyss, and power was not. I have gone-down into the depths of the sea; a tempest hath submerged me. [¶4] "'3. I have kept on crying; my throat is gone, my eyes faded, waiting patiently for God. [¶5] "'4. They who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head; mighty are my foes, who violently pursued me. They required of me that which I took not from them. [¶6] "'5. God, thou hast known my foolishness, and my faults are not hid from thee. [¶7] "'6. Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord, Lord of powers, be ashamed for my sake; let not those who seek thee be ashamed for my sake, O Lord, God of Israel, God of powers. [¶8] "'7. For thy sake have I endured shame; shame hath covered my face. [¶9] "'8. I am become a stranger to my brethren, a stranger unto the sons of my mother. [¶10] "'9. For the zeal of thy house hath consumed me; the revilings of them that revile thee have fallen upon me. [¶11] "'10. I bowed my soul with fasting, and it was turned to my reproach. [¶12] "'11. I put on sackcloth; I became unto them a bye-word. [¶13] "'12. They who sit at the gates, chattered at me; and they who drink wine, harped about me. [¶14] "'13. But I prayed with my soul unto thee, O Lord; the time of thy well-liking is [now], O God. In the fulness of thy grace give ear unto my salvation in truth. [¶15] "'14. Save me out of this slime, that I sink not therein; let me be saved from them that hate me, and from the deep of waters. [¶16] "'15. Let not a water-flood submerge me, let not the deep swallow me, let not a well close its mouth above me. [¶17] "'16. Hear me, O Lord, for thy grace is good; according to the fulness of thy compassion look down upon me. [¶18] "'17. Turn not thy face away from thy servant, for I am oppressed. [¶19] "'18. Hear me quickly, give heed to my soul and deliver it. [¶20] "'19. Save me because of my foes, for thou knowest my disgrace, my shame and my dishonour; all my oppressors are before thee. [¶21] "'20. My heart awaiteth disgrace and misery; I waited for him who should sorrow with me, but I could not come at him, and for him who should comfort me, and I found him not. [¶22] "'21. They gave me gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. [¶23] "'22. Let their table be unto them for a trap and for a snare and for a retribution and for a stumbling-block. [¶24] "'23. Mayest thou bend their backs at all time. [¶25] "'24. Pour out thy anger upon them, and let the wrath of thy anger lay hold upon them. [¶26] "'25. Let their encampment be desolate, let there be no dweller in their habitations. [¶27] "'26. For they persecuted him whom thou hast smitten, and added to the smart of their woundings. [¶28] "'27. They added iniquity to their iniquities; let them not come into thy righteousness. [¶29] "'28. Let them be wiped out of the book of the living, and let them not be written in among the righteous. [¶30] "'29. I am a poor wretch who is heart-broken too; it is the salvation of thy face which hath taken me unto itself. [¶31] "'30. I will praise the name of God in the ode, and exalt it in the song of thanksgiving. [¶32] "'31. This shall please God better than a young bull which putteth forth horns and hoofs. [¶33] "'32. May the wretched see and make merry; seek ye God, that your souls may live. [¶34] "'33. For God hath heard the wretched and despiseth not the prisoners. [¶35] "'34. Let heaven and earth praise the Lord, the sea and all that is therein. [¶36] "'35. For God will save Zion, and the cities of Judæa will be built up, and they will dwell there and inherit it. [¶37] "'36. The seed of his servants shall possess it, and they who love his name shall dwell therein.'"