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    On the Anointing

            Translated by John D. Turner

[....] according to [....] the type of [...] see him. It is fitting for you at this time to send thy Son Jesus Christ
  and anoint us so we might be able to trample upon the snakes and the heads of the scorpions and all the
  power of the Devil since he is a shepherd of the seed. Through him we have known thee. And we glorify
  thee : Glory be to thee, the Father in the Son, the Father in the Son, the Father in the Holy Church and in
  the holy angels! From now he abides forever in the perpetuity of the Aeons, forever until the untraceable
  Aeons of the Aeons. Amen.

   Original translation of this text was prepared by members of the

Coptic Gnostic Library Project of the Institute for Antiquity and Christianity, Claremont Graduate School.

The Coptic Gnostic Library Project was funded by UNESCO, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and other Institutions.

 E. J. Brill has asserted copyright on texts published by the Coptic Gnostic Library Project.

The translation presented here has been edited,  modified and formatted for use in the Gnostic Society Library.

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