The Gnostic Bible: Gnostic Texts of Mystical Wisdom form the Ancient and Medieval Worlds

LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM 325

him. He confesses in them, since he is wrapped up in them and contained by
them. Therefore they never deny him. But those who are not in him deny him.
He did not say, "Whoever will deny in me," but "me." No one who is in him
ever denies him. "Before others" refers to both the saved and the gentiles, and
in like fashion, to their behavior before the former and to their voice before
the latter.