authority over devils and over all sickness. No one gives the Holy Ghost
but God, He who breathed into Adam, and lo! he was a man with a living soul.
He went up to Heaven from whence He had come down, on the angels' wings. No
one can do that but God, He who came down from Heaven upon Mount Sinai and
talked with Moses and gave him the Law. He is in every place, that perfect
Man!, nothing is awanting in Him. Then the Christ will come on the day of
the Resurrection and will judge men by their deeds. He will cause the
righteous to inherit the kingdom of Heaven, and continual life without
interruption. The Christ is Mediator between us and God; [He is] God of God
and [He is] Man. Men could not have looked towards God and lived. God willed
mercy to His creatures and honour to them, and the Christ was between us and
God, the God of God, and a Man, the judge of men by their deeds. Thus God
was veiled in a Man without sin, and shewed us mercy in the Christ, and
brought us near to Him. All this the Prophets of God have said, and they
spoke of the Christ before He appeared to men. We will shew all this from
their sayings and their writings and their gospel in the Christ as the Holy
Ghost inspired them at the end of this our book if God will. But we will
begin by one sign which we take from the sayings of the Christ. When He said
to the Apostles as He went up to Heaven from the Mount of Olives1
and commanded them to disperse themselves in all the world and preach about
the Kingdom of Heaven and repentance in His name, the Christ said to them,
"I send you this day as sheep among wolves, but tarry ye in the Holy
City2 until ye are clothed with power from Heaven. I go to where
I was and I will send you the Paraclete, the Holy Ghost, the Righteous One
whom men cannot look on, Him who will bring Me to your remembrance and
everything of which I have spoken to you. He will speak in your mouths, and
ye shall be led before kings of the earth and rulers. Be not at all troubled
about what ye shall speak, for the Spirit whom I shall send unto you, He
shall speak in your mouths." They
