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10423.\Hearken, therefore, my Lord, that I may say it clearly. The word in sooth which David hath spoken: 'Give ye thanks unto the Lord, for he is good, for his grace is eternal,'it is the word which Pistis Sophia hath spoken: 'I will give thanks unto thee, O Light, for thou art a saviour and thou art a deliverer for all time.'24.\hath delivered them out of the hand of their foes,'--it is the word which Pistis Sophia hath spoken: 'I will utter this song to the Light, for it hath saved me and saved me out of the hand of the rulers, my foes.' And the rest of the Psalm.25.\midst of the four-and-twenty invisibles, desiring that they should know all the wondrous works which thou hast done for her, and desiring that they should know that thou hast given thy mysteries to the race of men.\26.It came to pass then, when Jesus had heard Philip say these words, that he said: \said, blessed Philip. This is the solution of the song which Pistis Sophia hath uttered.\27.[END OF THE STORY OF PISTIS SOPHIA]CHAPTER 83%u2013QUESTION WITH PRECISION1.It came to pass then again, after all this, that Mary came forward, adored the feet of Jesus and said: \concerning everything with precision and certainty. 2.For thou hast said unto us aforetime: 'Seek that ye may find, and knock that it may be opened unto you. For every one who seeketh shall find, and to every one who knocketh it shall be opened.' 3.Now, therefore, my Lord, who is it whom I shall seek, or who is it at whom we shall knock?Or who rather is able to give us the decision upon the words concerning which we shall question thee? Or who rather knoweth the power of the words concerning which we shall question? Because thou in the mind hast given us mind of the Light and hast given us sense and an exceedingly exalted thought; for which cause, therefore, no one existeth in the world of men nor any one in the height of the %u00e6ons, who can give the decision on the words concerning which we question, save thee alone, who knoweth [sic] the universe, who is perfected in the universe; because we do not question in the manner in which the men of the world question, but because we question in the gnosis of the Height which thou hast given unto us, and we question moreover in the type of the excellent questioning which thou hast taught us, that we may question therein.