Pistis Sophia 4

1Porém os discípulos estavam assentados juntos em temor e achavam-se em grande consternação, atemorizados por causa do grande tremor de terra que ocorrera, e choravam juntos, dizendo: "Que sucederá agora? Porventura o Salvador destruirá todas as regiões?" Dizendo isto, choravam juntos.

1But the disciples sat together in fear and were in exceedingly great agitation and were afraid because of the great earthquake which took place, and they wept together, saying: "What will then be? Peradventure the Saviour will destroy all regions?" Thus saying, they wept together.

2Enquanto diziam isto e choravam juntos, eis que à nona hora do dia seguinte os céus se abriram e viram Jesus descer, resplandecendo com infinito fulgor, e não havia medida para a luz em que ele estava. Pois brilhava com maior radiância do que na hora em que subira aos céus, de modo que os homens no mundo não podem descrever a luz que estava sobre ele; e radiava raios de luz em grande abundância, e não havia medida para os seus raios, e a sua luz não era uniforme, mas de diversas espécies e de feitios vários, sendo uns raios mais excelentes do que outros; e toda a luz estava reunida.

2While they then said this and wept together, then, on the ninth hour of the morrow, the heavens opened, and they saw Jesus descend, shining most exceedingly, and there was no measure for his light in which he was. For he shone more [radiantly] than at the hour when he had ascended to the heavens, so that men in the world cannot describe the light which was on him; and it shot forth light-rays in great abundance, and there was no measure for its rays, and its light was not alike together, but it was of divers kind and of divers type, some [rays] being more excellent than others . . .; and the whole light consisted together.

3Era de tríplice espécie, e uma espécie era mais excelente do que a outra. A segunda, que estava no meio, era mais excelente do que a primeira que estava abaixo, e a terceira, que se achava sobre todas elas, era mais excelente do que as duas que estavam abaixo. E a primeira glória, que estava colocada abaixo de todas, assemelhava-se à luz que descera sobre Jesus antes de subir aos céus, sendo semelhante apenas a si mesma em sua luz. E os três modos de luz eram de naturezas diversas de luz, e eram de diversos tipos, sendo um mais sublime do que o outro.

3It was of threefold kind, and the one [kind] was more excellent than the other. . . . The second, that in the midst, was more excellent than the first which was below, and the third, which was above them all, was more excellent than the two which were below. And the first glory, which was placed below them all, was like to the light which had come over Jesus before he had ascended into the heavens, and was like only itself in its light. And the three light-modes were of divers light-kinds, and they were of divers type, one being more excellent than the other. . . .