The Gnostic Bible: Gnostic Texts of Mystical Wisdom form the Ancient and Medieval Worlds

32 EARLY WISDOM GOSPELS whereas there is punishment for one who passes over its laws The strength of justice is that it lasts."^ ...

EARLY WISDOM GOSPELS 33 0 people, to you I call out and raise my voice to all the living. You the simple, learn prudence; acquir ...

34 EARLY WISDOM GOSPELS used within educational systems into the Byzantine period and far beyond, even into the modern world, in ...

EARLY WISDOM GOSPELS 35 Schweitzer's paragraph in his Quest of the Historical Jesus presents a powerful image of the apocalyptic ...

(^36) EARLY WISDOM GOSPELS this is due to an additional written source, besides Mark, that Matthew and Luke both used. In order ...

EARLY WISDOM GOSPELS 37 For this is how they oppressed the prophets who came before you. Love your enemies, and pray for those w ...

3 S EARLY WISDOM GOSPELS works included here (for example, Gospel of Thomas 46), and his place is par- ticularly prominent in Ma ...

EARLY WISDOM GOSPELS 39 will not be revealed." In its concern for hidden wisdom that is revealed and un- derstood, the Gospel of ...

40 EARLY WISDOM GOSPELS John, John the baptizer, in contrast to Jesus, is nobody: he admits that he is neither the messiah nor E ...

EARLY WISDOM GOSPELS 41 between what is of flesh—like the water and the wine—and what is of spirit, what is earthly and what is ...

42 EARLY WISDOM GOSPELS Christian gospel. In 1 Corinthians Paul argues this point with vigor, and he does so in opposition to th ...

1 The Gospel of Thomas I he Gospel of Thomas is a wisdom gospel. Like the sayings gospel I Q, which most scholars now suggest wa ...

44 EARLY WISDOM GOSPELS gospel may have been written in Syria, possibly at Edessa (modern Urfa), where the memory of Thomas was ...

EARLY WISDOM GOSPELS When you are troubled, you will marvel and rule over all.^5 (3) Yeshua said, If your leaders tell you, "Loo ...

46 EARLY WISDOM GOSPELS Should we give to charity? What diet should we observe?^11 Yeshua said, Do not lie and do not do what yo ...

EARLY WISDOM GOSPELS 47 And others fell on good soil and it brought forth a good crop, yielding sixty per measure and one hundre ...

Q EARLY WISDOM GOSPELS 40 Matai^17 said to him, You are like a wise philosopher. Toma^18 said to him, Rabbi,^19 my mouth is utte ...

EARLY WISDOM GOSPELS 49 (15) Yeshua said, When you see one not born of woman, fall on your faces and worship. That is your fathe ...

50 EARLY WISDOM GOSPELS (20) The students said to Yeshua, Tell us what the kingdom of heaven is like. He said to them, It is lik ...

EARLY WISDOM GOSPELS 51 They said to him, Then shall we enter the kingdom as babies? Yeshua said to them, When you make the two ...