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67CHAPTER 57%u201313THREPENTANCEOF PISTIS SOPHIA1.And Jesus continued again in the discourse and said unto his disciples: \again thereafter that Pistis Sophia cried unto me, saying:2.\them; wherefor have I uttered the twelve repentances, [one] for each %u00e6on. Now, therefore, O Light of lights, forgive me my transgression, for it is exceedingly great, because I have abandoned the regions of the height and have come to dwell in the regions of the chaos.'3.\repentance, saying:4.\ Hearken unto me singing praises unto thee, O Light of lights. Hearken unto me uttering the repentance for the Thirteenth %u00c6on, the region out of which I have come down, in order that the thirteenth repentance of the Thirteenth %u00c6onmay be accomplished, --those [%u00e6ons] which I have overstepped and out of which I have come down.5.\ Now, therefore, O Light of lights, hearken unto me singing praises unto thee in the Thirteenth %u00c6on, my region out of which I have come down.6.\ Save me, O Light, in thy great mystery and forgive my transgression in thy forgiveness.7.\ And give unto me the baptism and forgive my sins and purify me from my transgression.8.\ And my transgression is the lion-faced power, which will never be hidden from thee; for because of it have I gone down.9.\ And I alone among the invisibles, in whose regions I was, have transgressed, and have gone down into the chaos. Moreover I have transgressed, that thy commandment may be accomplished.'10.%understand her words, come forward and proclaim her thought.\11.Martha came forward and said: \of that which Pistis Sophia hath spoken; thy power hath prophesied aforetime concerning it through David in the fiftieth Psalm, saying thus:12.\thy mercy blot out my sin.13.\14.\15.\