Here is N. He saith, I am he who raiseth the hand which is motionless, and I come forth at the hour.([2]) I am the living Soul,([3]) and there go before me the longings([4]) of those who bring salutation.([5])
Notes.
This chapter is found in several of the best MSS., but the text is extremely corrupt, and must have become absolutely unintelligible. The Turin text differs greatly from that of the older copies, and the transposition of words clearly shows how little the transcribers understood what they were writing. I follow chiefly the text of Aa, the papyrus of Nebseni.
[1.] These words only occur in the later copies.
is the older reading, but