Four Books Against the Manichaeans

To the one who was worthy to see, he says: "From your sins and from yourselves," as if this is so. But what is it to you, to divide from among yourselves? For in the blindness of your eyes, through the thoughts of the wicked, a complete division was drawn; and the discourse of the righteous, however, they are not others, for in truth they are living, who have nothing from
5the thought of sin. He says again concerning the mysteries and the teaching of our own [people], in the speaking of the words of the prophets, that just as in those who partook of the body from Adam... and in the crowns 154 F from those ministers who, like the prophets, through their hands, [arrived] at the thought of theology. To the one to whom it was limited by them, he says:
That all creatures that are pure, as their words are in them, before they complete
10and to complete they are completed. For in the word of Elijah, when they are completed and the mystery...
113 As it appears to us, there is power in the discourse of this Father, that we may know that to the one to whom this blessedness, which was given through the complete one to the many, if they partook of it, even if [it were] for the cause of the words of the prophets. And how, in those who partook of it, [there is] something
15that is so that they may be one, even in the ministers, and the holy word, something [at]
the time they desired [it] in their nature...
114 This is the Christ, the Savior, the seed
of all life, in that he is not, if he is, for he stands in all places in the cause
of the knowledge that he saw, and [also] division, not that he is, for that which is not, what [is it]? And in truth, that which is, the making of which is in its rest, he says: "The soul that is
20interpreted [as] its own, it is cast [down], nor does it wander after the thoughts that are hidden in places
of glory 155 A of the one who created it, the guardian." And he says: "All this, indeed, in the voluntary face of [the] creation." And the hearing that does not [permit] envy is carried away,
that which hears the beauty not before the purity, in the amount that it is in our faces, something
that was of God, those [who are] strong, to see. For our power, which is of God,
in the glorious wonder, [in] the crying that is purified, that is bright and beautiful and full of the theory
25of the soul, beautiful in the glory of the living, indeed, and the perishable, that it is moved, as if from the one who [says]
that by his hands, that the hand which holds [is] from above, as it is mine. And the word says
that as [of] the perishable of the strong, that maybe the discourse, and because the theory [is] from
how [it is] toward the one who is trapped in this of the Christ, to the existence that from [him] is the righteousness of the vision that
is the rejected instead of the glorious, evil, [to] the strange [places] it was cast, after
30the life from the Christ from his house... 115 But also, the sister
of the things of the unions, in what speaking word does he speak, that he says, as if for the Christ
that every creature that is right is able, [to whom] it is, as for completion, and the word that it is
that before [the] ages 155 B how it is shown, something that [is] the hand, and in all your words
to them that in the Savior, that it is not one from the blood, that is the hand that through the beauty
35that happened, is that they should be [in] the purity that is beautiful, his Father, for he says also.