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Law in On the Origin of the World

On the Origin of the World was translated from the Nag Hammadi Codex II,5, which dates from the end of the third century or beginning of the fourth, A.D. The text is a collection of Gnostic ideas on the Creation, not on divine law. We have used the Bethge-Wintermute translation.

Everyone must go to the place from which he has come. Indeed, by his acts and his knowledge, each person will make his (own) nature known. – On the Origin of the World, Codex II, 5

References

Bethge, Hans-Gebhard and Orval S. Wintermute, Trans. "On the Origin of the World." The Nag Hammadi Library. Ed. James M. Robinson. San Francisco, Harper & Row, 1981. 161-179.

The Nag Hammadi Library. James M. Robinson, editor. San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1988. Partial chapter texts only at Internet Archive, December 15, 2022.

Read the full text of On the Origin of the World at Early Christian Writings.

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