Chapter 17

¹ For this reason the Lord received myrrh on his head, so that he might breathe incorruption to the Church. Don’t anoint yourselves with the foul stench of the teaching of the ruler of this age, lest he take you captive from the life that lies before you.

² Why then don’t we all become wise, having received the knowledge of God, which is Jesus Christ? Why do we foolishly perish, ignoring the gift that the Lord has truly sent?