Yet since it is also good for you to lack but bad for you to be filled, whoever is filled also lacks. The savior answered and said, “For this reason I have told you, ‘Be filled,’ that you may not lack. Then Peter answered, “Look, three times you have told us, ‘Be filled,’ but we are filled.” “So I tell you: Be filled and leave no space in you empty, or he who is coming will mock you.” “Blessings on you who have not been sick, and have known relief before getting sick. “Shame on those who have found relief from their sickness, for they will relapse into sickness. “Understand that he healed you when you were sick, that you might reign. “Blessings will be on you who have not seen him, or associated with him, or spoken with him, or listened to anything from him. “Shame on those who have seen the human son. “From now on, awake or asleep, remember that you have seen the human son and have spoken with him and have listened to him. The savior said, “You have been treated kindly, When he called the two of them, he took them aside and commanded the rest to keep doing what they were doing. Leave James and Peter to me that I may fill them.” He said, “I tell you the truth, no one will ever enter the kingdom of heaven because I ordered it, but rather because you yourselves are filled. They all answered and said, “If you order us, we shall come.” Jesus said, “No, but I shall return to the place from which I came. Look, the savior appeared, after he had left us, while we were watching for him.įive hundred fifty days after he rose from the dead, we said to him, “Did you depart and leave us?” Now, the twelve students were all sitting together, recalling what the savior had said to each of them, whether in a hidden or an open manner, and organizing it in books. Think of that book as revealed to me, James. Ten months ago I sent you another secret book that the savior revealed to me. Nonetheless, those who will be saved through the faith of this treatise will be blessed. But since you are a minister of the salvation of the saints, try to be careful not to reveal to many people this book that the savior did not want to reveal even to all of us, his twelve students. You have asked me to send you a secret book revealed to Peter and me by the master, and I could not turn you down, nor could I speak to you, so I have written it in Hebrew and have sent it to you, and to you alone. Headings in bold type have been added to the text for clarity by the translators. Barnstone's translations of the Nag Hammadi texts are published in The Gnostic Bible, © 2003, Willis Barnstone & Marvin Meyer. This original translation of The Secret Book of James (Nag Hammadi Codex I, 2) is presented in the Gnostic Society Library by permission and under license from Dr. Translated by Marvin Meyer and Willis Barnstone The Nag Hammadi Library The Secret Book of James Institute for Antiquity and Christianity, Claremont Graduate University)Ī complete selection of translations and books about The Nag Hammadi Library (Above image of the Gospel of Thomas courtesy of the The Secret Book of James (Meyer Translation) - The Nag Hammadi Library
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