Full Word of God · 3.11 Coptic Books of Light — Nag Hammadi, Sophia, Jeu, and Related Coptic Witnesses

Layer 3 — Full Word of God

On Baptism A

Layer

Full Word of God

Collection

3.11 Coptic Books of Light — Nag Hammadi, Sophia, Jeu, and Related Coptic Witnesses

Classification

Coptic / Nag Hammadi witness

Relationship to Scripture

Closely related · not in the Restored Bible

On Baptism (A)

[A short liturgical instruction; only a few lines survive.]

This is the fullness of the going down into the water. We go down into it through the cleansing, and we come up in the imperishable, having received the Name. [Line damaged]

The water is a type; the truth is the descent of the Saviour, who cleanses us within, and gives us the spirit, that we should no longer belong to death but to life. [Text missing]

[Here the witness breaks off.]