The Glad Tidings of Nikódemos 20

Discussion between sâţâ´n and sh’ówl

1. And while all the pure ones were rejoicing, look, sâţâ´n the prince and chief of death said unto sh’ówl: "Make yourself ready to receive Yâhuwshúa` Who boasts himself that He is the Anointed and the Son of the Power, whereas He is a Man that is very scared of death, as I myself have heard Him say: "My self (néphesh) is sorrowful even unto death." Then I understood that He was afraid of the gallows-cross. Brother, let us make haste, both you and I, for the bad day. Let us fortify this place, to be able to retain here as prisoner the One called Yâhuwshúa that, according to Yâhuwchânâ´n and the preilluminators must come to expel us from here. For He has been much mine enemy, doing me great hurt, opposing Himself to me in many things, and plundering me of a multitude of resources. Many that I had made blind, lame, dumb, leprous, and possessed He has cured with a word: and some whom I have brought unto you dead, them has He taken away from you and returned them to life. 2. sh’ówl answered and said unto sâţâ´n: "Who is the Prince that is so mighty, if He be a man that fears death? For all the Power of the earth are held in subjection by my power, even from the moment you have brought me them subdued by your power. If you are this mighty, what manner of Man is this Yâhuwshúa Who, though He fear death, resists your power? If He is so mighty in His dirt-body, verily I say unto you He is Upholder of all in His mighty Personhood, and none shall be able to withstand His Power. And when He says that He fears death, He wanted to entrap you, and it shall constitute your woe for the everlasting ages." But sâţâ´n the prince of the deepest abyss said: "Why do you vacillate and fear to receive this Yâhuwshúa Who is your adversary and mine? For I put Him on trial, and have stirred up my ancient people of the "Yehuwthím" with envy and wrath against Him. I have sharpened a spear to thrust him through, and I have prepared a gallows-cross to hang Him and nails to pierce Him, and gall and vinegar have I mingled to give Him to drink: and His death is nigh at hand, that I may bring Him unto you to be subject unto you and me." 3. sh’ówl answered and said: "You have told me that it is He that has taken away dead men from me. For there are many which I retain, though while they lived on the earth they have taken dead men from me, yet not by their own power but by prayer to the Power, and their Upholder of all Power was Who has taken them from me. Who is, then, this Yâhuwshúa, which by His own Word without prayer has drawn dead men from me? Perchance it is He Who by His commanding Word did restore to life ’El'âzâ´r who was four days dead and stank and was decayed, whom I held here dead?" sâţâ´n the prince of death answered and said: "It is that same Yâhuwshúa." When sh’ówl heard that, he said unto him: "I adjure you by your strength and mine own that you bring Him not unto me. For at that time I, when I heard the command of His Word, I did quake and was overwhelmed with fear, and all my assistants with me were troubled. Neither could we keep ’El'âzâ´r, but he, himself shaking, leaped forth with all agility and swiftness like an eagle, and departed from us, and the very earth also which held the dead body of ’El'âzâ´r straightway gave him up alive. Which is why now I know that that Man Who was able to do these things is a Power strong in command and mighty in the dirt-body [Howshë´a 11:4], and that He is its Deliverer. And if you bring Him unto me He will set free all that are here shut up in the hard prison and bound in the chains of their errors that cannot be broken, and by the Virtue [the Father] of His mighty Personhood, He will bring them unto the life of His mighty Personhood for ever."

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