3 This is the tomb for the mold of the body that the robbers used to clothe the man, the chain of oblivion, and he became a mortal man. (APJ) 4 This is the first one who descended, and the first division, but Reflection of Light, who dwelt inside him, she roused his intellect. (APJ) 5 Further, the archons brought him and placed him in paradise, and they said to him, ‘Eat,’ meaning, ‘in laziness,’ because their delight is surely bitter, and their beauty is degenerate, but their delight is trickery, and their trees are godlessness, and their fruit is an untreatable poison, and their promise is mortality. (APJ)
Apocryphon of John 15:3–5
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