Testament of Our Lord

tr. Cooper and Maclean, 1902

1. Book I, Chapter 1

And we returned answer, saying, Lord, what is the Holy Ghost, and what is His power, whom Thou badest¹ us to ask for? And our Lord said unto us, Verily I say unto you that ye shall not be the children of the light² except by the Holy Ghost. And we returned answer to Him, and said, O our Lord, give us this [Spirit]. And immediately Jesus breathed on us.³ And after we had received the Holy Ghost, He said unto us, Verily I say unto you, that ye who have been made disciples unto the kingdom of heaven, and who have believed in Me with undoubting heart, and have cleaved unto Me, shall be with Me; and all those who through you know and do the will of My Father, who keep My words and know My sufferings,⁴ shall be made holy, and shall dwell in the habitations⁵ of My Father, and shall be delivered from the evil days that are about to come; and I will be with them, shewing them My ways in which they shall live.

Notes

Lit.: saidst.
Eph. v. 8; 1 Thess. v. 5; St. Luke xvi. 8; St. John xii. 36.
St. John xx. 22.
Cf. Phil. iii. 10.
Cf. St. John xiv. 2.