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title: "Pistis Sophia"
author: "Anonymous (Gnostic)"
translator: "G. R. S. Mead"
languages: [en]
shelf: "Hermetica & Gnostics"
section: 22 of 132
url: https://scriptura.si/works/pistis-sophia-mead/22/
cite: "Anonymous (Gnostic), tr. G. R. S. Mead, Pistis Sophia, section 22. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/pistis-sophia-mead/22/"
---

# 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.

## 22. First Book · Chapter 40

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/pistis-sophia-mead/22/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/pistis-sophia-mead/22/#p-N

[¶0] It came to pass while Jesus spake these words unto his disciples, saying unto them: "This is the fourth repentance which Pistis Sophia hath uttered; now, therefore, let him who understandeth, understand,"--it came to pass then, when Jesus had spoken these words, that John came forward, adored the breast of Jesus and said unto him: "My Lord, give commandment to me also, and grant me to speak the solution of the fourth repentance which Pistis Sophia hath uttered."

[¶1] Jesus said unto John: "I give thee commandment, and I grant thee to speak the solution of the repentance which Pistis Sophia hath uttered."

[¶2] John answered and said: "My Lord and Saviour, concerning this repentance which Pistis Sophia hath uttered, thy light-power which was in David, hath prophesied aforetime in the one-hundred-and-first Psalm:

[¶3] "'1. Lord, give ear unto my supplication and let my voice reach unto thee.

[¶4] "'2. Turn not away thy face from me; incline thine ear unto me in the day when I am oppressed; quickly give ear to me on the day when I shall cry unto thee.

[¶5] "'3. For my days are vanished as smoke and my bones are parched as stone.

[¶6] "'4. I am scorched as the grass, and my heart is dried up; for I have forgotten to eat my bread.

[¶7] "'5. From the voice of my groaning my bones cleaved to my flesh.

[¶8] "'6. I am become as a pelican in the desert; I am become as a screech-owl in the house.

[¶9] "'7. I have passed the night watching; I am become as a sparrow alone on the roof.

[¶10] "'8. My enemies have reviled me all the day long, and they who honour me, have injured me.

[¶11] "'9. For I have eaten ashes instead of my bread and mixed my drink with tears,

[¶12] "'10. Because of thy wrath and thy rage; for thou hast lifted me up and cast me down.

[¶13] "'11. My days have declined as a shadow, and I am dried up as the grass,

[¶14] "'12. But thou, O Lord, thou endurest for ever, and thy remembrance unto the generation of generation[s].

[¶15] "'13. Arise and have mercy upon Zion, for the time is come to have mercy upon her; the proper time is come.

[¶16] "'14. Thy servants have longed for her stones, and will take pity on her land.

[¶17] "'15. And the nations will have fear of the name of the Lord, and the kings of the earth have fear of thy sovereignty.

[¶18] "'16. For the Lord will build up Zion and reveal himself in his sovereignty.

[¶19] "17. He hath regarded the prayer of the humble and hath not despised their supplication.

[¶20] "'18. This shall be recorded for another generation, and the people who shall be created will praise the Lord.

[¶21] "'19. Because he hath looked down on his holy height; the Lord hath looked down from the heaven on the earth,

[¶22] "'20. To hear the sighing of those in chains, to loose the sons of those who are slain,

[¶23] "'21. To proclaim the name of the Lord in Zion and his praise in Jerusalem.'

[¶24] "This, my Lord, is the solution of the mystery of the repentance which Pistis Sophia hath uttered."