Greco-Christian stream·Pistis Sophia·First Book — Post-Resurrection Discourses·Chapter 53
Pistis Sophia
Peter interpreteth the tenth repentance from Psalm cxix · Peter, and finely
Source context
- Theme
- post-resurrection transmission of gnosis in the late chapters of a Nazarene Christian discourse cycle
Steiner
not engaged in the GA corpus
Cross-tradition
- Valentinian GnosticismValentinian pleroma-discourse structures late revelatory sequences as graduated pneumatic transmissions from a risen or ascended figure to elect recipients, paralleling the formal logic of post-resurrection discourse cycles in Nazarene Gnostic texts.
- Mandaean tradition (Codex Nazaraeus)The Nazarene Gnostic tradition preserves the concept of ferho as the highest creative power, a principle whose transmission through authorized post-resurrection speech acts carries structural congruence with the discourse format of this chapter's position near the cycle's close.
Chapter 53
CHAPTER 53
When then Jesus had said this unto his disciples, he said unto them: "Now, therefore, let him whom his spirit stirreth, come forward and speak the solution of the tenth repentance of Pistis Sophia."
Peter answered and said: "O Lord, concerning this thy light-power prophesied aforetime through David in the one-hundred-and-nineteenth Psalm; saying:
Peter interpreteth the tenth repentance from Psalm cxix."'1. I cried unto thee, O Lord, in my oppression, and thou hearkenest unto me.
"'2. O Lord, save |101. my soul from unjust lips and from crafty tongues.
"'3. What will be given unto thee or what will be added unto thee with a crafty tongue?
"'4. The arrows of the strong [one] are made sharp with the coal of the desert.
"'5. Woe unto me, that my dwelling is far off, and I dwelt in the tents of Kedar.
"'6. My soul hath dwelt in many regions as a guest.
"'7. I was peaceful with them who hate peace; if I spake unto them, they fought against me without a cause.'
"This is now, therefore, O Lord, the solution of the tenth repentance of Pistis Sophia, which she hath uttered when the material emanations of Self-willed oppressed her, they and his lion-faced power, and when they oppressed her exceedingly."
Jesus commendeth Peter.Jesus said unto him: "Well said, Peter, and finely. This is the solution of the tenth repentance of Pistis Sophia."