Coptic Manichaean Psalm Fragments

Layer

Wider Ancient Witness Archive

Collection

4.5 Mandaean, Manichaean, and Late Antique Comparative Prayer Witnesses

Classification

Late-antique comparative witness

Relationship to Scripture

Background / comparative · not Scripture

This text is included as a comparative, historical, philosophical, ritual, textual, or fragmentary witness. It is not presented as part of the Restored Bible.

Coptic Manichaean Psalm Fragments

[Archive witness: a comparative late-antique text, preserved as historical evidence, not as doctrine or scripture.]

Fragments of the Coptic Manichaean psalms, among them the psalms ascribed to Heracleides and Thomas.

I am a harp in the hand of the Spirit;

let me sound the praise of the Light.

Victory to the soul of the blessed

that has overcome the world

and reached the harbor of rest.

Let us not love the body that perishes, but the soul that endures; for the world is a sea, and the body a ship, and the soul the merchant within; happy is the merchant who brings his cargo safe to the harbor of light. [Text missing]

[Fragment breaks here.]