I do this, then, both in
act and word. I do this under thy wings, in a danger too great to
risk if it were not that under thy wings my soul is subject to
thee, and my weakness known to thee. I am insufficient, but my
Father liveth forever, and my Defender is sufficient for me. For
he is the Selfsame who didst beget me and who watcheth over me;
thou art the Selfsame who art all my good. Thou art the
Omnipotent, who art with me, even before I am with thee. To
those, therefore, whom thou commandest me to serve, I will
declare, not what I was, but what I now am and what I will
continue to be. But I do not judge myself. Thus, therefore, let
me be heard.
CHAPTER V
7. For it is thou, O Lord, who judgest me. For although no
man "knows the things of a man, save the spirit of the man which
is in him,"[327] yet there is something of man which "the spirit
of the man which is in him" does not know itself. But thou, O
Lord, who madest him, knowest him completely. And even I --
though in thy sight I despise myself and count myself but dust and
ashes -- even I know something about thee which I do not know
about myself.
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