(2) "'1. Why doth the mighty [one] boast himself in his wickedness? "'2. Thy tongue hath studied unrighteousness all the day long; as a sharp razor hast thou practised craft. "'3. Thou lovedst wickedness more than goodness; thou lovedst to speak unrighteousness more than righteousness. "'4. Thou lovedst all words of submerging and a crafty tongue. "'5. Wherefor will God bring thee to naught utterly, and will uproot thee and drag thee out from thy dwelling-place, and will root out thy root and cast it away from the living. (Selah.) "'6. The righteous will see and be afraid, and they will mock at him and say: "'7. Lo, a man who made not God for his helper, but trusted to his great riches and was mighty in his vanity. "'8. But I am as a fruit-bearing olive-tree in the house of God. I have trusted in the grace of God from all eternity. "'9. And I will confess unto thee, for thou hast dealt faithfully with me; and I will wait on thy name, for it is auspicious in the presence of thy holy [ones].' "This then is now, therefore, my Lord, the solution of the eleventh repentance of Pistis Sophia. While thy light-power hath roused me, I have spoken it according to thy desire."

(29) And as Adam in Confidence of himself (desiring to be high and wise like God himself) went into the Spirit of the fierce Source [or Property] in this World, so the second Adam must endure all Mocking, Torment, and Pain, to be inflicted upon him from the wise i Scribes, that we might see that in our greatest Art (which we suppose to have from the Schools and Universities in this World) we are but Fools, and that such Wisdom is but Folly before God; and our own Opinions and Conceits stick therein, as in Adam, who thought he could not now fail, he was become Lord therein [viz. in his Self -Wisdom,] and he was but a Fool. Thus also, when we fall from God, and rely upon our own Reason, we are [but] Fools.

(41) Therefore look to it, and be not too scornful in this Place, else thou wilt be found a Scorner and Mocker before God, and then well mayest thou fare as King Lucifer did. Now it may be asked, Question. What do the Angels then when they sing not? Answer.

(4) (But this Thy bounteous spirit doth not alone bestow rewards and blessings on the good.) The wicked (foemen of the Faith) are harmed, and from (the motives which move) that bounteous spirit (of Thine own), O Mazda ! but not thus the saints. (And yet the ruler's pride would ever slight the righteous.) The feeble man alone stands free to give in kindly obligation to Thy saint, but having wealth and ruling power, the evil (man) is (at the service) of the wicked, and for much .