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Chapter 4  
     
1.
 Then Jesus said, O you wretches; O you unfortunates; O you pretenders to the truth; O you falsifiers of knowledge; O you sinners against the Spirit: can you still bear to listen, when it behooved you to speak from the first?
 
2.
 Can you still bear to sleep, when it behooved you to be awake from the first, so that the kingdom of heaven might receive you?
 
3.
 Verily, I say unto you, had I been sent to those who listen to me, and had I spoken with them, I would never have come down to earth. So, then, be ashamed for these things.
 
4.
 Behold, I shall depart from you and go away, and do not wish to remain with you any longer, just as your yourselves have not wished it.
 
5.
 Now, therefore, follow me quickly. This is why I say unto you, For your sakes I came down.
 
6.
 You are the beloved; you are they who will be the cause of life in many. Invoke the Father, implore God often, and he will give to you.
 
7.
 Blessed is he who has seen you with Him when He was proclaimed among the angels, and glorified among the saints; yours is life. Rejoice, and be glad, as sons of God.
 
8.
 Keep the will of the ALL, that you may be saved; accept reproof from me and save yourselves. I intercede on your behalf with the Father, and he will forgive you much.
 
9.
 And when we had heard these words, we became glad, for we had been grieved at the words we have mentioned before. But when he saw us rejoicing, he said, Woe to you who lack an advocate!
 
10.
 Woe to you who stand in need of grace!
 
11.
 Blessed will they be who have spoken out and obtained grace for themselves. Liken yourselves to foreigners; of what sort are they in the eyes of your city?
 
12.
 Why are you disturbed when you cast yourselves away of your own accord and separate yourselves from your city?
 
13.
 Why do you abandon your dwelling place of your own accord, making it ready for those who want to dwell in it?
 
14.
 O you outcasts and fugitives, woe to you, for you will be caught!
 
15.
 Or do you perhaps think that the Father is a lover of mankind, or that he is won over without prayers, or that he grants remission to one on anothers behalf, or that he bears with one who asks? –
 
16.
 For he knows the desire, and also what it is that the flesh needs! - Or do you think that it is not this flesh that desires the soul?
 
17.
 For without the soul, the body does not sin, just as the soul is not saved without the spirit.
 
18.
 But if the soul is saved when it is without evil, and the spirit is also saved, then the body becomes free from sin.
 
19.
 For it is the spirit that raises the soul, but the body that kills it; that is, it is it the soul which kills itself.  
20.
 Verily, I say unto you, he will not forgive the soul the sin by any means, nor the flesh the guilt; for none of those who have worn the flesh will be saved.
 
21.
 For do you think that many have found the kingdom of heaven?
 
22.
 Blessed is he who has seen himself as a fourth one in heaven!
 
23.
 When we heard these words, we were distressed.
 
24.
 But when he saw that we were distressed, Jesus said, For this cause I tell you this, that you may know yourselves.
 
25.
 For the kingdom of heaven is like an ear of grain after it had sprouted in a field.
 
26.
 And when it had ripened, it scattered its fruit and again filled the field with ears for another year.
 
27.
 You also, hasten to reap an ear of life for yourselves, that you may be filled with the kingdom!
 
28.
 And as long as I am with you, give heed to me, and obey me; but when I depart from you, remember me.
 
29.
 And remember me because when I was with you, you did not know me.
 
30.
 Blessed will they be who have known me; woe to those who have heard and have not believed!
 
31.
 Blessed will they be who have not see, yet have believed!
 
32.
 And once more I prevail upon you, for I am revealed to you building a house which is of great value to you when you find shelter beneath it, just as it will be able to stand by your neighbors house when it threatens to fall.
 
33.
 Verily, I say unto you, woe to those for whose sakes I was sent down to this place; blessed will they be who ascend to the Father!
 
34.
 Once more I reprove you, you who are; become like those who are not, that you may be with those who are not.
 

 
 
 

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