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 said to thee, 'I have many wonders to show by thee, and I have to accomplish great works through thee, by which thou shalt obtain a reward, and thou shalt make many to live, and they shall be in repose in eternal life, as the children of God. Do thou, therefore, said he, raise this young man—whereby he meant me—who has been cast cast down by the enemy and became his overseer at every time.' Thou hast done well to come hither, and again thou shalt well go away to him, being not at all forsaken by him. And I have been released from care and reproach, and a light rose upon me, (and I was released) from the care of the night and rested from the daily work; but I was also released from him who exasperated me to do these things. I sinned against him, who taught me the contrary, and I have destroyed that kinsman of the night, which forces me to sin by his own practices; but I found, however, that kinsman of mine who is like the light. I have destroyed him that darkens and obscures his subjects, that they know not what they do, and, ashamed of their works, they abandon them and their deeds have an end. But I found him, whose works are light and whose deeds are truth, of which no one repents, whoever does them. I was released from him, in whom falsehood abides, whom darkness as a covering goes before, and shame, impudent in idleness, follows after. But I found him, who revealed to me what is beautiful to lay hold of it, the Son of truth, the kinsman of