384 LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM
and redemption is certain in him,
and possession of eternal life.
Those who are in him cannot be stained.Song 41
All who see me will be astonished,
for I am an alien among you.
The father of truth remembered me.
He possessed me from the beginning.
Through his riches and thought in his heart
he engendered me.
His word is our way.
The savior makes us alive and doesn't forget our souls.
The humbled
are exalted in him.
The son of the highest one
appeared in the father's perfection.
Light found daybreak in the word
that was earlier his.
The messiah is one,
known before the foundation of the world.
He saves souls in his truth and name.
Let us sing to the lord. We love him.Song 42
I stretched out my hands and came near my lord.
It is my sign, stretching my hands as if spread on a tree.
That was my way up to the good one.
I became useless to those who didn't seize me.
I hid from those who don't love me
but am with them who love me.
My persecutors died.