Manichaean Hymns to Jesus and the Light

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.

Manichaean Hymns to Jesus and the Light

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

Hymns addressed to Jesus the Splendor and to the Light, from the Manichaean tradition.

Jesus, splendor of the lights,

physician of the wounded soul:

come, and heal me;

give me your right hand,

and lead me out of the darkness.

You are the way and the gate;

you are the light of those who sit in shadow.

Awaken the soul that sleeps,

and raise it to the kingdom of light.

I have come to know you, light of my soul; do not forsake me in the land of the enemy, but receive me into your fold, with all the souls that are saved. [Text missing]

[Fragment breaks here.]