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title: "Pistis Sophia"
author: "Anonymous (Gnostic)"
translator: "G. R. S. Mead"
languages: [en]
shelf: "Hermetica & Gnostics"
section: 61 of 132
url: https://scriptura.si/works/pistis-sophia-mead/61/
cite: "Anonymous (Gnostic), tr. G. R. S. Mead, Pistis Sophia, section 61. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/pistis-sophia-mead/61/"
---

# 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.

## 61. Second Book · Chapter 78

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/pistis-sophia-mead/61/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/pistis-sophia-mead/61/#p-N

[¶0] It came to pass then, when the First Mystery had finished saying these words unto the disciples, that he said: "Who hath understood the words which I have spoken, let him come forward and set forth their solution."

[¶1] James came forward and said: "My Lord, concerning this song which Pistis Sophia hath sung, thus thy light-power hath prophesied aforetime through David in the seventh Psalm:

[¶2] "'1. O Lord, my God, in thee have I hoped. Free me from my pursuers and save me,

[¶3] "'2. That in sooth he may never steal away my soul as a lion, without any one to deliver and save.

[¶4] "'3. O Lord, my God, if I have done this, if injustice is on my hands,

[¶5] "'4. If I have requited those who requite me with evil, then let me fall down empty through my foes.

[¶6] "'5. And let the foe pursue after my soul and seize it, and trample my life to the ground and lay my honour in the dust. (Selah.)

[¶7] "'6. Arise, O Lord, in thy wrath, raise thyself up for the end of my foes.

[¶8] "'7. Arise according to the commandment which thou hast commanded.'"

[¶9] It came to pass then, when the First Mystery had heard James speak these words, that he said: "Well said, James, beloved."