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Antony to all his beloved who are in the Arsinoite region and its district, and to those who are with them: greetings in the Lord. I greet in the Lord all of you who have prepared yourselves to go to God, beloved, from the least to the greatest, men and women alike. O children of Israel according to your intellectual substance, truly, my children, a great promise has been given to you in your generation. Because of Him who has visited you, it was fitting that you should not grow weary in your struggle until you offer yourselves as a sacrifice to God in all holiness, without which no one will be able to inherit God.

Truly, beloved, this is a great thing for you: to inquire into the knowledge of the intellectual substance, in which there is neither male nor female, but only an immortal substance, having a beginning but no end. You ought also to know how it fell altogether into such humiliation and extraordinary confusion, which, passing through, has come upon all of you.