Iv.

Thou fulfillest each day the decree of yesterday.

Thou art the maker of the years and the ordainer of the months; days and nights and hours are according to Thy measure.

Thou renewest the day for the day that is past; going in as the night, Thou art the day.

The One Watcher hates slumber. Men sleep on their beds, but His eyes watch. (Chap. VI.)

The sun of heaven is His sign; its rays are upon the faces of men.

He brought forth the Nile from its source for His creation. Thy name is victorious, Thy will is weighty.

He destroys His attacker straightway. The earth shakes when He sends forth His voice. Every being is in awe of Him; mighty in power, there is none like Him. (Chap. IX.)

Loosing evils, driving away sicknesses; a physician healing the eye without medicines; Opener of the eye, destroyer of the film that is in it.

He releases him whom He loves.

Possessing eyes and ears, He is on every path of him that loves Him.

He hears the petitions of him that invokes Him.

Though afar off, He comes in a moment to him that calls Him.

He adds to the term of life, and He shortens it.

To him whom He loves He gives more than he had expected.

To the man who sets Him in his heart, He is more than millions.

With His name one man is stronger than hundreds of thousands. (Chap. XI.)

Thou wert first, when there was no being in existence. All things came into being after Thee. (Chap. XIII.)

Before Him no god existed; there was no other god with Him to declare His form.

He had no mother, and no father who begot Him.

All that exists was created after Him. (Chap. XIV.)

One is God; He is hidden from all. No eye perceives Him. No angel knows how to describe Him as He truly is. (Chap. XV.)