15 They grew old without enjoying any pleasures. (APJ) 16 Without discovering the truth, and without knowledge of the true God, they died, and in this way all of creation fell into an age-long slavery, lasting from the foundation of the world until now. (APJ) 17 They further selected women and begot children from the darkness, according to the likeness of their (own) spirit, and they shut up their hearts, and they hardened themselves by means of the hardness of the vile spirit, (even) until now. (APJ)
Apocryphon of John 19:15–17
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