4:1
“The assault will reach the place where the great people dwell—those neither defiled nor destined for defilement by desire.”
4:2
“Their soul did not arise from a defiled hand; it came by the great command of an eternal messenger.”
4:3
“Fire, sulfur, and asphalt will be cast upon them. Fire and hail will fall upon those aeons.”
4:4
“The eyes of the powers’ illuminators will be darkened, so the aeons will not see the people in those days.”
4:5
“Great clouds of light will arrive. Other clouds of light will descend upon the people from the great aeons.”
4:6
“Abrasax, Sablo, and Gamali’el will descend. They will bring the people out from fire and wrath.”
4:7
“They will carry them above the aeons and above the rulers of the powers, toward [manuscript damaged] life and the dwelling of the great ones and set-apart messengers.”
4:8
“Those people will become like the messengers, for they are not strangers to them; they labor in the imperishable seed.”
4:9
“The Illuminator of knowledge will come a third time in great glory.”
4:10
“He will leave for himself some from Noach’s seed and from the sons of Cham and Yefet—trees that bear fruit.”
4:11
“He will ransom their souls from the day of death. Every formation proceeding from dead earth lies under death’s authority.”
4:12
“But those who set their hearts upon knowledge of the eternal Elohim will not perish, because they received their breath not from this kingdom alone but from [manuscript damaged] one of the eternal messengers.”
4:13
“The Illuminator will come upon [the seed] of Shet and perform signs and wonders, exposing the powers and their ruler to scorn.”
4:14
“The deity of the powers will be disturbed and ask: ‘What is the power of this man who stands higher than we do?’ He will raise great wrath against him.”
4:15
“The glory will withdraw and dwell in set-apart houses chosen for itself. The powers will not see the glory, nor will they see the Illuminator.”
4:16
“They will punish the flesh of the man upon whom the Set-Apart Breath came.”
4:17
“The messengers and generations of the powers will misuse the Name, asking, ‘From where did this man come? From where came these words the powers call false—words none of them discovered?’” 7