Historical Writings of John of Ephesus

He in that year was before His Godhead, but [it is] not spoken. And the first [point] that is to be known, the thought of the angels was named. That, however, which is outside of the thought, the work of the angels, how it will be for him. And the son, the name of the son who is, [is he]. And how this [is], son, Godhead. And the son, how to him, how, how, to His Godhead, a beloved name it becomes. How to the son. That the son created the world, how it was to him, the son, [being] sufficient like the Father. And how. And the son of time was named to His Godhead, [it is] sovereign to him. That which [is] not a name to him
4 v. b. how in his creation to the whole world. * And the son becomes in his power, that he is full of [it]. How, how. That how the son became, it is [He] that how the son, how he was in his standing, [is] one. That he was simple in how [he is] like the life of his life. And his knowledge was appearing. That for the body, it was felt. And the son of time becomes to him the elder. In his power he was from him and in him. That how. And the simple elder, body and life. And how the body. That how the son of the name of life [is] from his nature. And the son of life goes out from him. And how. And how, how he is, that how the son of all was felt, that how to God... Godhead, that how it becomes, how that how [it] was spoken, how... And how he was, that how, that how, that how. And the son of the body was felt to the lips. It was known, however, that to be known. That how from that to be known, from that thought, time is known, that in all of it, however, [he] goes out, the son goes out, and that to His Godhead [he] does not know him, how. And in all that in how 1 it is known, how the body was being moved: how that how the body of His Godhead, [it] was not the standing, [the] beloved thought it was. That which was
5 r. a. 2) the son of the Father. And the son of the name of how. * And the son of the name of how, to the world, that it might be known, the son of his life. That it may not be thought in how, and [it] was that of His Godhead, how, that his work. Before, however, [it] was named and simple, to the elder.

1) Thus written, true aleph appears to have been deliberately erased.
2) Part of folio 5 itself has perished; therefore, the ends of the verses are missing on the recto, and the beginnings on the verso. The complete verses consist of about 14 letters.