Nisibis 15

The son of the voice of God who loved you all came to you not that a straight head might increase the limbs' delight, for because of the head that is crooked, the rebellious member chastened the limbs. The cause hung on the head, the crooked one: blessed is he who chose the skill of the people. If now the whole face hangs on him, the sin of the congregations is suspended. How much more, then, did the congregation become, and also God, when he was gentle? The bitter ones were troubled by him. In the head, the limbs stood in silence in his serenity, and in gentleness in his sweetness, in his holiness, in his radiance, and in his wisdoms, teachings. Taste stood in his humility, and asceticism in his gravity, and poverty in his lowliness, for he was beautiful in all his words. He adorned all with all. See that measure and balance exist for his words and his deeds. Set your mind that also his ways are the paths of silence that cry out. He held all the commandments of all. He became a lord to his youth, for he saw it as a pasture of asceticism. His limbs did not tremble, for beneath the rod they were placed. His will was bound to him. For first he examined his rank before he examined his conduct, so that he set his foundations firmly; he was a head in his youth, so that the herald made him for the people. He was eloquent among the heralds, and he was beautiful among the readers, and he was eloquent among the wise, he was ascetic among the houses of his brothers, and grave among his friends. In both dwellings he was a solitary from his days.

the holy one was within his body, and the solitary one within his house. He was hidden and revealed, he was bent. But sin, the brothers of David, came with the disciplines and destroyed the taste of childhood, and sin became for the teachers the perfection of your call. Rather, it is the discipline of truth, the guardian who preserves herself in his belly. She chose him because she saw that he would preserve her scent and her taste from beginning to end. A head that is bent and heavy, that was not heated and hardened, was not inflamed like you, a wise man who preserves his disciplines and casts commands upon his shepherds. He gave a sign in his person that just as he preserved the discipline of his time, so too should he who knows the time of sin know that it is for the time of sin that he was hired, that he might laugh at the time of taste. For the fruit, in its strength, drives it at the beginning, the seven of the spirit, and in the middle, the strength of the sun, and when its power passes, its end becomes weak. Sin, however, drove the first ones and struck also the middle ones. The last ones added weakness, and when your childhood reached its fullness, your foolishness increased. For they came to perfection to pluck the youths from the hour, that they might bring them to heaviness. Your old age was troubled, that they might strike in you as in youths. In the sweet time, you were strong, and you were not in need of the bitter, that the weight of your old age might increase, and if it does not know its degree, the one who knows its time is lost. And if he is sick, he says that the bitter and the rod govern the flock.

And to the robber of the taste, and to the destroyer of the flavor, and to the dispersers of the portion, they ran with the first head, the limbs of the tastes. They were binding for the third, and the whole body from its sack. After them he was going. In the tastes, with the first and the third in the tastes, the steps were spread, one from another, in the midst of each other in the interiors. They pushed, they entered, also the exteriors.