CHAPTER 2.

It happened as the disciples were sitting with one
another upon the Mount of Olives, as they spoke these
words they rejoiced with great joy, and they were very
jubilant, and they said to one another: "We are blessed
beyond all men who are on earth because the Saviour has
revealed these things to us, and we have received the pleroma
and the whole completion". As they were saying these things
to one another, Jesus was sitting at a short distance fromthem.

It happened, however, on the 1sth of the moon in the
month of Tôbe, which is the day on which the moon
becomes full, now on that day when the sun had risen on its
path , there came forth after it a great power of light, giving
a very great light, and there was no measure to its accom-
panying light , for it came forth from the Light of Lights,
exceedingly, with (a) light to which there was no measure.
And the disciples gazed after him, and not one of them
spoke until he had reached heaven, but they all kept a great
silence. Now these things happened on the 15th of the moon,
on the day on which it is full in the month of Tôbe.
Now it happened when Jesus went up to heaven, after
three hours all the powers of the heavens were disturbed,
and they all shook against one another, they and all their
aeons, and all their places and all their ranks and the whole
earth moved with all who dwelt upon it. And all the men
in the world were agitated, and also the disciples. And they
all thought : "Perhaps the world will be rolled up". And all
the powers which are in the heavens did not cease from their
agitation, they and the whole world, and they all moved
against one another from the third hour of the 15th of the
moon in (the month of) Tôbe until the ninth hour of the
following day. And all the angels and their archangels and
all the powers of the height all sang praises to the innermost
of the inner , so that the whole world heard their voices,
and they did not cease until the ninth hour of the following
day.

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