(7) These things show that that wisdom can be acquired through instruction, to which Abraham attained, passing from the contemplation of heavenly things to the faith and righteousness which are according to God. And Isaac is shown to mean "self-taught;" wherefore also he is discovered to be a type of Christ. He was the husband of one wife Rebecca, which they translate "Patience." And Jacob is said to have consorted with several, his name being interpreted" Exerciser." And exercises are engaged in by means of many and various dogmas. Whence, also, he who is really "endowed with the power of seeing" is called Israel, having much experience, and being fit for exercise.

(32) I know that ye are Abraham's seed; but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you. I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father.

(9) He has her turn her face from her people and the gang of her adulterers with whom she had mingled, to devote herself now to her king, her real lord, and to forget the house of the earthly father with whom things were bad for her, and remember her father in heaven. So Abraham was told,

(34) If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham. But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham. Ye do the deeds of your father.

(1) THE book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham: Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat....

(16) But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented. And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.

(8) There is then the greatest and highest Love in the new Birth, not only towards God, or oneself, but also towards Men, our Brothers and Sisters: So that those that were regenerated, have had their Desires and Love so carried towards Men, that they have very earnestly taught Men with Meekness and Reproving, and their Love to them in their Teaching has been so great, that they have even willingly yielded their Life up to Death, and left their earthly Goods, and all they had, in allured Hope, (in their strong and firm Knowledge) to receive all again in great Honour [and Glory.]

(11) Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus. He abode two days in the place where he was; then saith he to his disciples,

(7) And did not Abraham, when he was in danger on account of Sarah's beauty, with the king of Egypt, properly call her sister, being of the same father, but not of the same mother?

(12) When those Egyptian women sacrificed their reason, They penetrated the mansion of Joseph's love; The Cup-bearer of life bore away their reason, Joseph's beauty was only an offshoot of God's beauty; Be lost, then, in God's beauty more than those women. Love of God cuts short reasoning, O beloved, Through love bewilderment befalls the power of speech, It no longer dares to utter what passes; For if it sets forth an answer, it fears greatly Therefore it closes lips from saying good or bad, In like manner the Prophet's companions tell us

(4) .... And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus who is called Christ.

(3) "Unto Abraham on the other hand and Isaac and Jacob I have forgiven all their sins and their iniquities and have given them the mysteries of the Light in the æons and placed them in the region of Yabraōth and of all the rulers who have repented. And when I go into the Height and am on the point of going into the Light, I will carry their souls with me into the Light. But, amēn, I say unto you, Mary: They will not go into the Light before I have carried thy soul and those of all thy brethren into the Light.

(14) Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these?

(2) And I: "By philosophic arguments, And by authority that hence descends, Such love must needs imprint itself in me; For Good, so far as good, when comprehended Doth straight enkindle love, and so much greater As more of goodness in itself it holds; Then to that Essence (whose is such advantage That every good which out of it is found Is nothing but a ray of its own light) More than elsewhither must the mind be moved Of every one, in loving, who discerns The truth in which this evidence is founded. Such truth he to my intellect reveals Who demonstrates to me the primal love Of all the sempiternal substances. The voice reveals it of the truthful Author, Who says to Moses, speaking of Himself, 'I will make all my goodness pass before thee.' Thou too revealest it to me, beginning The loud Evangel, that proclaims the secret Of heaven to earth above all other edict." And I heard say: "By human intellect And by authority concordant with it, Of all thy loves reserve for God the highest.

(20) diseases which can only be cured in some such way. God said unto Jesus, "O Jesus! when I see in My servants' hearts pure love for Myself unmixed with any selfish desire concerning this world or the next, I act as guardian over that love." Again, when people asked Jesus "What is the highest work of all?" he answered, "To love God and to be resigned to his will." The Saint Rabia was once asked whether she loved the Prophet: "The love of the Creator," she said, "has prevented my loving the creature." Ibrahim Ben Adham, in his prayers, said, "O God! in my eyes Heaven itself is less than a gnat in comparison with the love of Thee and the joy of Thy remembrance which thou hast granted me."

(6) ¶Then came unto Jesus the mother of James and John, the sons of Zebedee, desiring a certain thing of him. He said unto her,

(6) There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out.

(45) Verily, verily I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.

(1) In this perfection it is possible for man and woman equally to share. It is not only Moses, then, that heard from God, "I have spoken to thee once, and twice, saying, I have seen this people, and lo, it is stiff-necked. Suffer me to exterminate them, and blot out their name from under heaven; and I will make thee into a great and wonderful nation much greater than this;" who answers not regarding himself, but the common salvation: "By no means, O Lord; forgive this people their sin, or blot me out of the book of the living." How great was his perfection, in wishing to die together with the people, rather than be saved alone!

(219) 167 To say: Atum, this thy son is this one here, Osiris, whom thou hast made to endure and to live. 167 He lives, N. (also) lives; he dies not, N. (also) dies not; 167 he perishes not, N. (also) perishes not, he is not judged, N. (also) is not judged; 167 he judges, N. (also) judges. 168 Shu, this thy son is this one here, Osiris, whom thou hast made to endure and to live. 168b-168d = 167b- 167 169 Tefnut, this thy son is this one here, Osiris, whom thou hast made to endure and to live. 169b-169d = 167b- 167 170 Geb, this thy son is this one here, Osiris, whom thou hast made to endure and to live. 170b-170d = 167b- 167 171 Nut, this thy son is this one here, Osiris, whom thou hast made to endure and to live. 171b-171d = 07b- 167 172 Isis, this thy brother is this one here, Osiris, whom thou hast made to endure and to live. 172b-172d = 167b- 07 173 Set, this thy brother is this one here, Osiris, who is made to endure and to live, that he may punish thee. 173b-173d = 167b- 167 174 Nephthys, this thy brother is this one here, Osiris, whom thou hast made to endure and to live. 174b-174d = 167b- 167 175 Thot, this thy brother is this one here, Osiris, who is made to endure and to live, that he may punish thee. 175b-175d = 167b- 167 176 Horus, this thy father is this one here, Osiris., whom thou hast made to endure and to live. 176b-176d = 167b- 167 177 Great Ennead, this one here is Osiris, whom ye have made to endure and to live. 177b-177d = 167b- 167 178 Little Ennead, this one here is Osiris, whom ye have made to endure and to live. 178b-178d = 167b- 167 179 Nut, this thy son is this one here, Osiris, of whom thou hast said: "One born to your father." 179 Thou hast wiped for him his mouth; his mouth was opened by his son, Horus, whom he loves; 179 his limbs are counted by the gods. 180a-180c = 167b- 167 181 In thy name, "He who is in Heliopolis, while he remains everlastingly in his necropolis": 181b-181d = 167b- 167 182 In thy name, "He who is in Busiris, chief of his nomes": 182b-182d = 167b- 167 183 In thy name, "He who is in the House of eret, the satisfied ka": 183b-183d = 167b- 167 184 In thy name, "He who is in the Divine Hall, who is in fumigation, 184 (who is in the) chest, (who is in the) portable chest, (who is in the) sack": 184c-184e = 167b- 167 185 In thy name, "He who is in the White Chapel of p`r-wood": 185b-185d = 167b- 167 186 In thy name, "He who is in ": Thou sojournest in heaven; thou sojournest on earth. 186 Osiris, turn thy face around, that thou mayest see N., 186 thy seed which came forth from thee, the pointed (pd.t). 187a-187c = 167b- 167 188 In thy name, "He who is in Buto": 188 Let thine arms be about "provisions", thy daughter; equip thyself with her. 188c-188e = 167b- 167 189 In thy name, "He who is in the House of the Great Ox": 189 Let thine arms be about "provisions", thy daughter; equip thyself with her. 189c-189e = 167b- 167 190 In thy name, "He who is in Hermopolis of the South": 190 Let thine arms be about "provisions", thy daughter; equip thyself with her. 190c-190e = 167b- 167 191 In thy name, "He who is in Hermopolis of the North": 191 Let thine arms be about "provisions", thy daughter, equip thyself with her. 191c-191d = 167b- 167 192 In thy name, "He who is in the City of Waters": 192 That which thou hast eaten is an eye; thy body is full of it; thy son, Horus, parts with it for thee, that thou mayest live by it. 192c-192d = 167b- 167 193 Thy body is the body of N.; thy flesh is the flesh of N.; 193 thy bones are the bones of N. 193 Thou goest, N. goes; N. goes, thou goest.