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On the Origin of the World
Samuel Zinner, edited by Mark M. Mattison; Other Gospels · Translated text
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Chapter 19
1. After the day of rest, Sophia dispatched her daughter Zoe, called Eve, as a teacher, so that she could make the soulless Adam stand up, so that those whom he would beget could become vessels of light.
2. [When] ⟦page 116⟧ Eve saw her male companion lying prostrate, she had compassion on him, and she said: “Adam, live!
3. Stand up on the earth!”
4. Her utterance straightaway was fulfilled in act, because Adam, after standing up, speedily opened his eyes.
5. When he beheld her, he said: “You will be called ‘Mother of the Living,’ because you are the one who has given me life.”