Nisibis 40

And the son of his voice perceived the evil one in his lowliness, the great one, and he boasted of himself before his worshippers. His words were magnified when he spread out and said: "Knowledge does not suffice for the one who comes; little of his coming is pure, and the whole abundance and entirety of teaching comes to my person. I was great, and I derided my mind, for without a teacher I learned everything. I moved myself in everything, and I led it, a crown of what I desired in wickedness, perversity. Blessed is the one who came and abolished the snares of sin." He was distinct. I clothed my helps that he might approach with him, that he, the son of Mary, might be. Wrath, like a bow, shoots arrows; arrogance diminishes him.

And pride fell upon him, and wickedness oppressed him. Shame and error in anger were with him, and he took up stones of blasphemy. A physician stood among the sick, and the eye of his teaching ran to the infirm with his adornment, so that he would not fall. Under the authority of questions, I was being mocked. I multiplied, I ran, I saw the causes, and I saw that my deceit was covered, and my shamelessness was known, and my rebellion was proclaimed. In the reversals of the free, I was hidden wherever I disputed with him. All my labor was for him like a cripple, and his dwelling place, the word of truth, was for all the chosen. I saw that he was a champion, and he was a lord of power, he was in the midst of the human mind. [And the creeping thing of the outside terrifies her.] His creator burns within him. At every hour, his error clings like a serpent, generating the tremors of death, and from fire he is cut off. A command instead of a root can uproot him. [For the one who strikes the destroyer.] Love is able to break him. His hidden and bitter poison, which is for the tongue, how foolish it is! From the human mind, which is better than itself, whose dwelling place cares. The entrails of his enemy he stirs up daily, and he covers the moth with his members, the righteous ones who sin with his smiles. And he does righteousness in his thought. In his house, his mind was bright, and the darkness of his heart confuses his senses and washes away his thoughts. He holds his door and closes his purse, opens his mouth and closes the treasury of his thought. His mind is awake, increasing the foolish one who cares for his own, which is better than itself.

Good seeds he sowed in his land, in his heart he sowed tares. His thought was deranged and cast down, and he wearied among the fences of vineyards. He chose and hewed cuttings, while his thought was a vine from the shoots of Sodom. A nettle grew from his seed, and a wild boar of the thicket came to his mind. He brought a furnace to the eyes of a physician, and by me the thoughts of their minds are examined. In falsehood the ruler of deceit rules over me, Chaldean teaching instructs a physician. In the truths that he received, he was confounded by falsehoods. Within Egypt he took hold of springs, I showed the reed that it is not what it seems. With one of the springs a physician teaches sorceries that do not exist in the heavens. By my lightness I flew and saw, and I brought forth a showing to the diviner. Those who erred in me, the magician considered me. There is also where a physician mocks, and a physician asks for the sake of the hour. Hidden things are revealed to me that were examined in me by the true ones. In the likeness of Job, also deceivers like Saul. There is one who reveals his pain, and one who purifies his truth and is mocked.