(2) The master answered and said, "Do you not know that the head of prophecy was cut off with John?"

(10) And he rejoined: Who made thee judge o'er us, Or ruler? Wilt thou slay me, as thou didst Him yesterday? And I m terror said, How is this known?"

(3) "It came to pass then, when I had come into the midst of the rulers of the æons, that I looked down on the world of mankind, by command of the First Mystery. I found Elizabeth, the mother of John the Baptizer, before she had conceived him, and I sowed into her a power which I had received from the little Iaō, the Good, who is in the Midst, that he might be able to make proclamation before me and make ready my way, and baptize with the water of the forgiveness of sins. That power then is in the body of John.

(246) He who destroys life, who speaks untruth, who in this world takes what is not given him, who goes to another man's wife;

(199) He cried to God, "What has become of my arrow?" God answered, "Thy arrow is fixed in his throat!" That King, bountiful as the sea, had pardoned him; He was slain, and cried out with his last breath, "The King is all in all, my slayer and my savior. If he is not both these, he is not all in all; Nay, he is both my slayer and my mourner!" That expiring martyr also gave thanks, That the King had smitten his body, not his spirit;

(41) And Judah went to the house of her father, and said unto her father and her brothers : " Bring her forth, and let them burn her, for she hath wrought unclean- ness in Israel."

(8) And in the thirtieth jubilee, in the second week, in the 429 a.m. first year thereof, he took to himself a wife, and her name was MSlka^ the daughter of Madai. the son of 1432 a.m. Japheth, and in the tourth year he begat a son, and called his name Shelah ; for he said : " Truly I have been sent."

(4) And in the twelfth jubilee, am. in the seventh week thereof, he to^k_tq_hijnself__^, wife, andjierjiAmf. was EdniJ* tE^ugEteLafJ^in^L 587 a.m. the daughter of his fathers- brother, and in the sixth year inthis'week she bare him a son and he called his name Methuselah.

(8) In the twenty-ninth jubilee, in the first week, in the beginning thereof Arpachshad took to himself a wife and her name was RasijJLjJu [the daughter of Susan,] the daughter of ElamTand she bare him a son in the third year in this week, and he called his name Kainam.

(8) And she bare him a son in the fifth year thereof, and he called his name Eber : and he took unto him- 1503 a.m. self a wife, and her name was 'Azurad, the daughter 1564 a.m. ofNebr6d, in the thirty-second Jubilee, in the seventh week, irftne third year thereof.

(11) And in the seventh year of this week she bare him a son, and he called his name Abram, by the name of the father of his mother ; for he had died before his daughter had conceived a son. Abram 's Knowledge of God and wonderful

(1) And Mary answered and said: "Now, therefore, my Lord, hast thou then not brought mysteries into the world that man may not die through the death which is appointed him by the rulers of the Fate,--be it that it is appointed one to die by the sword or die by the waters or through tortures and torturings and acts of violence which are in the law, or through any other evil death,--hast thou then not brought mysteries into the world that man may not die with them through the rulers of the Fate, but that he may die by a sudden death, so that he endure no sufferings through such kinds of death? For they are exceedingly numerous who persecute us because of thee, and numerous those who persecute us because of thy name, in order that, if they torture us, we may speak the mystery and straightway go out of the body without having endured any sufferings at all."

(2) Then reigned within my lofty fantasy One crucified, disdainful and ferocious In countenance, and even thus was dying. Around him were the great Ahasuerus, Esther his wife, and the just Mordecai, Who was in word and action so entire. And even as this image burst asunder Of its own self, in fashion of a bubble In which the water it was made of fails, There rose up in my vision a young maiden Bitterly weeping, and she said: "O queen, Why hast thou wished in anger to be naught? Thou'st slain thyself, Lavinia not to lose; Now hast thou lost me; I am she who mourns, Mother, at thine ere at another's ruin." As sleep is broken, when upon a sudden New light strikes in upon the eyelids closed, And broken quivers ere it dieth wholly, So this imagining of mine fell down As soon as the effulgence smote my face, Greater by far than what is in our wont. I turned me round to see where I might be, When said a voice, "Here is the passage up;" Which from all other purposes removed me,

(10) Salm and Tûg slew them all, Aîrîk and his happy sons, but Frêdûn kept the daughter in concealment, and from that daughter a daughter was born; they became aware of it, and the mother was slain by them.

(107) And after some days my son Methuselah took a wife for his son Lamech, and she became pregnant by him and bore a son.

(41) And as Judah was going along he found her, and thoughther to be an harlot, and he said unto her : " Let me come in unto thee " ; and she said unto him : " Come in," and he went in.

(11) And he grew up, and dwelt in Ur of the Chaldees, near to the father of his wife's mother, and he worshipped idols, and he took to himself a wife in the thirty-sixth jubilee, in the fifth week, in the first year thereof, and her name was Mglka,* the daughter of Kab6r, the daughter of his fathers brother.

(17) 5And Sarah saw Ish- mael playing and dancing, and Abraham rejoicing with great joy, and she became jealous of Ishmael and said to Abraham, " Cast out this bondwoman and her son ; for the son of this bondwoman will not be heir with my son, Isaac."

(10) There sat Etana, there sat Sumukan, there sat Ereshkigal, the Queen of the Netherworld. Beletseri, the Scribe of the Netherworld, knelt before her, she was holding the tablet and was reading it out to her Ereshkigal. She raised her head when she saw me---- 'Who has taken this man?'

(4) He questioned them about the Savior: Did He really speak privately with a woman and not openly to us? Are we to turn about and all listen to her? Did He prefer her to us?