1He’s good.

2He knows his plants, because he planted them in his paradise.

3Now his paradise is a place of rest.

4This is the completion in the Father’s thought, and these are the words of his meditation.

5Each of his words is the work of his one will in the revelation of his Word.

6When they were still in the depths of his thought, the Word – which was the first to come out – revealed them along with a mind that speaks the one Word in a silent grace.

7He was called “the Thought,” since they were in it before being revealed.

8It happened, then, that he was the first to come out at the time when it pleased the one who wanted it.

9Now the Father rests in his will, and is pleased with it.

10Nothing happens without him, nor does anything happen without the will of the Father, but his will is incomprehensible.

11His trace is the will, and no one can know him, nor does he exist for people to scrutinize so that they might grasp him, but when he wills, what he wills is this – even if the sight doesn’t please them in any way before God – the will of the Father, because he knows the beginning of all of them, and their end, for in the end he’ll greet them directly.

12Now the end is receiving knowledge of the one who’s hidden; this is the Father, from whom the beginning has come, and to whom all who’ve come out from him will return.

13They were revealed for the glory and the joy of his name.