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The Fruit of Knowledge

1.This ‹is› the message of the one who is looked for, who revealed himself to the perfect with the mercies of the Father, the concealed mystery, Jesus the Christ, by whom he illuminated those in darkness because of oblivion.

2.He illuminated them and bestowed a path, being the path of the truth he expounded to them.

3.This is why Error grew angry at him.

4.She persecuted and tortured him.

5.She was reduced to nothingness.

6.He was nailed to a tree.

7.He became the fruit of the knowledge of the Father, yet it decayed not because of it being eaten.

8.Instead, for those who ate it, it provided them a reason to rejoice in the finding.

9.He found them inside of himself, and him they found inside themselves.

10.Regarding the inconceivable, unknowable one, the Father, the perfect one who created the all, inside him dwells the all, though the all stands in need of him.

11.Despite his possessing their perfection inside himself — he had not granted it to the totality —

12.the Father was not jealous, because what jealousy is between himself and his limbs?

13.Because had the aeons [obtained] their [perfection], they would have been unable to arrive at the […] the Father.

14.He possessed their perfection inside himself, granting it to them in the form of repentance to him and a knowledge joined together perfectly.

15.He is the one who created the all.

16.Even though the all dwelt inside him, the all stood in need of him.

17.Precisely like someone about whom some are ignorant, who desires that they know and love him, even so, because what did the all need if not knowledge of the Father, who became a teacher, kind and diligent?

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Why does the chapter call Jesus “the fruit of the knowledge of the Father”?

The chapter says Jesus was “nailed to a tree” and became “the fruit of the knowledge of the Father,” and that those who ate this fruit received “a reason to rejoice in the finding.” It portrays Jesus as the visible gift through which hidden knowledge of the Father is given and discovered — eating the fruit is a metaphor for receiving that revelatory knowledge.

This chapter ties that gift to repentance and mutual finding: “He found them inside of himself, and him they found inside themselves,” and the Father grants perfection as knowledge joined to repentance. That emphasis on inner discovery and knowledge echoes themes in Valentinian writings and resembles ideas in the Gospel of Thomas about finding the hidden kingdom within.

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