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221CHAPTER1A1.The Apostles answered and said: \completion, and it suffices us.\2.And he said: \3.(Lacuna)4.Ihave loved you. I have wanted (to give) you life; the livingJesus, who knows the truth.5.This is the book of the gnoses of the invisible God, bymeans of the hidden mysteries which show the way to the chosenrace, (leading) in rest (refreshment) to the life of the Fatherin the coming of the Saviour, of the deliverer of souls whoreceive to themselves this Word of life,which is higher than alllife -in the knowledge of the living Jesus, who has come forththrough the Father from the aeon of light at the completion ofthe pleroma%u2013in the teaching, apart from which there is noother, which the living Jesus has taught to his apostles, saying:6.\7.The living Jesus answered and said to hisapostles: \world, and who has not allowed theworld to crucify him.\Note: Schmidt and Till omit these pages in which the text is a copy of the translation and almost identical.