Gospels of Thomas and Philip and Truth - Syriac Christian Church

languages, but rather his name is ‘Yeshúa’ as he is called. Yet his
name ‘Christ’ in Aramaic° is ‘Messiah°’, but in Ionian° is: Ο ΧΡΙΣΤΟΣ;
altogether, all of the remainder have (‘the Anointed°’) according to
the essential language of each one. (Lk 1:31; ¹perhaps because (w#y =
‘HeIs [the] Savior’, the full meaning of which could only be understood by himself)
20b. The revealed Nazarene° is the secret! (Lk 4:16-30, Th 108)
21. The Christ has everything within himself— whether human or
angel° or mystery°, and (also) the Father. (Lk 17:21, Jn 17:2123, Th 3)
22. Those who say that the Lord first died and then arose, are
confused. For first he arose and (then) he died. If someone first
acquires the resurrection, he will not die; (as) God lives, that one
was [not] going to [die]. (Lk 20:36, Jn 11:26, Th 29)
23. No one will hide a thing of great value in something
ostentatious, but oftentimes has one placed (things worth)
countless myriads in something worth a pittance. Thus it is with
the soul— a precious thing came to be in a humble body. (Job 10:11,
Th 29)
24. There are some made fearful lest they arise naked. Therefore
they desire to arise in the flesh, and they do not know that those
who wear the flesh are the denuded. These who are made [into
light] (by) divesting themselves (of the flesh), are they who are not
naked.¹ (¹because they are clad in the images°; Ph 26 85; Odes of St Solomon
25:8, ‘I was clothed with the covering of thy Spirit, and thou removed from me my
garment of skin.’)
25. (Paul° claims that) ‘flesh [and blood will not be able] to inherit
the Sovereignty [of God].’ (=I-Cor 15:50!) What is this which shall not
inherit? This which is upon every one of us? Yet this is rather
what will inherit— that which belongs to Yeshua with his blood.
Therefore he says: He who eats not my flesh and drinks not my
blood, has no life within him. (=Jn 6:53!) What is his flesh? It is the
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