The Savior said, "You have received mercy ...
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Do you not, then, desire to be filled?
And your heart is drunken;
do you not, then, desire to be sober?
Therefore, be ashamed! Henceforth, waking
or sleeping, remember
that you have seen
the Son [of] Man, and
spoken with him in person,
and listened to him in person.
Woe to those who have seen the
Son [of] Man;
blessed will they be who
have not seen the man, and they
who have not consorted with him, and
they who have not spoken with him,
and they who have not listened to
anything from him; yours is
life! Know, then, that he healed
you when you were ill
that you might reign. Woe
to those who have found relief from
their illness, for they will
relapse into illness. Blessed are
they who have not been ill, and
have known relief before
falling ill; yours is the
kingdom of God. Therefore, I
say to you, 'Become
full, and leave no space within
you empty, for he who is coming
can mock you."
Then
Peter replied, "Lo,
three times you have told us,
'Become [full'; but] we are full."
The [Savior answered]
and said, ["For this cause I have said]
to you, ['Become full,'] that
[you] may not [be in want. They who are in want],
however, will not [be saved]. For it is good to be full,
and bad to be in want. Hence, just as
it is good that you (sg.) be in want and,
conversely, bad that you be full, so
he who is full is in want,
and he who is in want does not become full as
he who is in want becomes full, and
he who has been filled, in turn, attains
due perfection. Therefore, you must be in want
while it is possible to fill you (pl.), and
be full while it is possible for you to be in want,
so that you may be able [to fill]
yourselves the more. Hence, become
full of the Spirit,
but be in want of
reason, for reason
in turn, it is (of the nature of) soul."
