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title: "Pistis Sophia"
author: "Anonymous (Gnostic)"
translator: "G. R. S. Mead"
languages: [en]
shelf: "Hermetica & Gnostics"
section: 38 of 132
url: https://scriptura.si/works/pistis-sophia-mead/38/
cite: "Anonymous (Gnostic), tr. G. R. S. Mead, Pistis Sophia, section 38. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/pistis-sophia-mead/38/"
---

# 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.

## 38. First Book · Chapter 56

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/pistis-sophia-mead/38/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/pistis-sophia-mead/38/#p-N

[¶0] And Andrew came forward and said: "My Lord and Saviour, thy light-power hath prophesied aforetime through David concerning this repentance which Pistis Sophia hath uttered, and said in the one-hundred-and-eighth Psalm:

[¶1] "'1. God, keep not silent at my praise-singing.

[¶2] "'2. For the mouths of the sinner and crafty have opened their chops against me and with crafty deceitful tongue have talked behind me.

[¶3] "'3. And they have surrounded me with words of hate and have fought against me without a cause.

[¶4] "'4. Instead of loving me they have slandered me. But I prayed.

[¶5] "'5. They showed evil against me for good and hate for my love.

[¶6] "'6. Set a sinner over him, and let the slanderer stand at his right hand.

[¶7] "'7. When sentence is passed upon him, may he go forth condemned and his prayer become sin.

[¶8] "'8. May his days be shortened and another receive his overseership.

[¶9] "'9. May his children become orphans and his wife a widow.

[¶10] "'10. May his children be carried away and be driven forth and beg; may they be thrown out of their houses.

[¶11] "'11. May the money-lender sift out all that he hath, and may strangers plunder all his best efforts.

[¶12] "'12. Let there be no man to back him, and no one to take pity on his orphans.

[¶13] "'13. May his children be exterminated and his name blotted out in a single generation.

[¶14] "'14. Let the sin of his fathers be remembered before the Lord, and the sin of his mother be not blotted out.

[¶15] "'15. Let them be ever present to the Lord and his memory be rooted out from the earth;

[¶16] "'16. In that he hath not thought of using mercy and hath persecuted a poor and wretched man and hath persecuted a sorry creature to slay him.

[¶17] "'17. He loved cursing,--and it shall come unto him. He desired not blessing,--it shall stay far from him.

[¶18] "'18. He clothed himself with cursing as with a vesture, and it entered into his bowels as water, and it was as oil in his bones.

[¶19] "'19. May it be for him as a garment in which he shall be wrapped, and as a girdle with which he shall ever be girded.

[¶20] "'20. This is the work of them who slander [me] before the Lord, and speak unlawfully against my soul.

[¶21] "'21. But do thou, O Lord God, be gracious unto me; for thy name's sake save me.

[¶22] "'22. For I am poor and I am wretched; my heart is tumult within me.

[¶23] "'23. I am carried away in the midst as a shadow which hath sunk down, and I am shaken out as grass-hoppers.

[¶24] "'24. My knees have become weak from fasting, and my flesh is altered from [lack of] oil.

[¶25] "'25. But I have become a mock unto them; they saw me and wagged their heads.

[¶26] "'26. Help, O Lord God, and save me according to thy grace.

[¶27] "'27. May they know that this is thy hand, and that thou, O Lord, hast fashioned them.'

[¶28] "This is then the solution of the twelfth repentance which Pistis Sophia uttered, when she was in the chaos."