The First Book of Ieou
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The Apostles answered with one voice, they said : "Jesus , , O Lord,
are we born of the flesh, and known thee according to the flesh? Tell us,
O Lord, for we are troubled." The living Jesus answered and said to his
apostles : " I do not speak of the flesh in which you dwell, but the flesh
of and non-understanding which exists in ignorance, which leads astray
many from the of my Father." The apostles answered the words of the living
Jesus, the said: "Tell us how non-understanding happens, that we may beware
of it, lest we should go . . . . . . ." The living Jesus answered and said
: " one who bears my virginity and my . . . . . and my garment, without
understanding and knowing me, and blasphemes my name, I have . . . . to
destruction. And furthermorse he has become an earthly son because he has
not known my word with certainity - these which the Father spoke, so that
I myself should teach those who will know me at the completion of the pleroma
of him who sent me." The Apostles answered and said : "O Lord Jesus, thou
living one, teach us the completion, and it suffices us." And he said :
"The word which I give to you yourselves…."
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