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ANCIENT SOURCES ATTRIBUTED TO PAUL
  THE PRAYER OF THE APOSTLE PAUL
(Nag Hammadi Library 1.1[flyleaf A-B])
[tr. adapted from J.Robinson ed, NHL] 
  
01[...] 
02[...] 
03[your] light, give me your [mercy. My]
04 redeemer, redeem me, for 
05[I am] yours: from you have I come
06 forth. You are [my] mind: bring me forth!
07 You are my treasure-house: open for me! You
08[are] my fullness (plhrwma): take me to you!
09 You are <my> repose (anapausis): give me 
10[the] perfection that cannot be grasped!
11 I invoke you, the one who is 
12 and preexisted, by the name
13 [which is] exalted above every name, through Jesus Christ
14[the Lord] of Lords, the king of the ages (aiwn): 
15 give me your gifts which you do not begrudge 
16 through the son of man,
17 the spirit (pneuma), the paraclete (paraklhtos) of
18[truth.] Give me authority (ecousia)
19[when I] ask you; give
20 healing for my body (swma) when I ask
21 you through the evangelist (euaggelisths), 
22[and] redeem my eternal light-soul (yuxh) 
23 and my spirit (pna). And the 
24[first-]born of the pleroma (plhrwma) of grace (xaris) -- 
25[reveal] him to my mind (nous)! Grant(xarize)
26 what no eye of an angel (aggelos) has
27[seen] and no ear of an 
28 archon (arxwn) <has> heard and what
29[has not] entered into the human heart, 
30 which came to be angelic (aggelos) and (came to be)
31 after (kata) the image of the psychic (yuxikos) God 
32 when it was formed (plasse)
33 in the beginning, since I have 
34 faith (pistis) and hope (elpis).
35 And place upon me your 
36 beloved (agaphtos) elect (eklektos),
37 and blessed (euloghtos) greatness, the first 
38 born, the first begotten (genos),
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01[...] 
02[...] 
03 and the [wonderful] mystery (musthrion)
04 of your house; [for] 
05 yours is the power [and] 
06 the glory and the blessing (omologhsis)
07 and the [greatness]
08 for ever and ever. [Amen.(?)]
    [lines 9-10 in Greek] 
09   Prayer of Paul 
10   (the) Apostle, in Peace, Christ is holy

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