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70her head.3.\pure light did not depart from the wreath of the power of the light-flame, so that the emanations of Self-willed should not rob it from it, --when then this befell her, the pure light-power in Sophia began to sing praises. And she praised my light-power, which was a wreath round her head, and she sang praises, saying:4.\the emanations of Self-willed may not rob it from me.5.\6.\emanations of Self-willed see, --yet shall I not perish.7.\8.\the thought of these words, come forward and proclaim their solution.\9.Then Mary, the mother of Jesus, came forward and said: \world, my God and Saviour according to the height, bid me proclaim the solution of the words which Pistis Sophia hath uttered.\10.And Jesus answered and said: \according to matter, and hast received likeness which is in the Virgin of Light, according to light, thou and the other Mary, the blessed one; and on thy account the darkness hath arisen, and moreover out of thee did come forth the material body in which I am, which I have purified and refined, now, therefore, I bid thee proclaim the solution of the words which Pistis Sophia hath uttered.\11.Mary, the mother of Jesus, answered and said: \prophesied aforetime concerning these words through Solomon in the nineteenth Ode and said:12.\13.\14.\15.But thou art alive on my head and thou hast sprouted upon me.16.\