7 Its root is bitter and its branches are mortality, its shadow is odium, and trickery dwells inside its leaves, and its blossom is the evil anointing, and its fruit is mortality, and lust is its seed, and it buds in the darkness. (APJ) 8 Those who taste «22» of it, their dwelling place is Hades, and the darkness is their resting place. (APJ) 9 However, so that he could not gaze up toward his perfection nor realize the shame of his nudity, they remained in front of what they call ‘the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,’ being Reflection of Light. I was the one, however, who caused them to eat.” (APJ)
Apocryphon of John 15:7–9
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