44a Nothing happens without him, nor does anything happen without the will of the Father, but his will is incomprehensible. His trace is the will, and no one can know him, nor does he exist for people to scrutinize so that they might grasp him, but when he wills, what he wills is this – even if the sight doesn’t please them in any way before God – the will of the Father, because he knows the beginning of all of them, and their end, for in the end he’ll greet them directly. (GTR) 44b Now the end is receiving knowledge of the one who’s hidden; this is the Father, [38] from whom the beginning has come, and to whom all who’ve come out from him will return. They were revealed for the glory and the joy of his name. (GTR)
Gospel of Truth 1:44
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