Pistis Sophia

The Sahidic Testaments, followed by the Apostolic Canons, and furthermore a treatise on the mysteries of the Greek letters (in which the author, called Atasius the Presbyter, derives and draws out all the works of creation, providence, and redemption from the Greek alphabet, drawing his arguments from that saying: "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end" original: "Ego sum α et ω, principium et finis"; a reference to Revelation 21:6), and finally the Book of Gnosis Gnosis: a Greek term for "knowledge," referring here to esoteric spiritual knowledge in Sahidic Sahidic is a major dialect of the Coptic language, used in Upper Egypt from the Bruce Codex original: "codice Bruciano"; a famous Gnostic manuscript purchased by James Bruce in 1769, which is preserved in the Bodleian Library, described by comparing the transcript of Woide Charles Godfrey Woide (1725–1790), a scholar of Coptic manuscripts, which he corrected in many places.

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