Gospels of Thomas and Philip and Truth - Syriac Christian Church
Gospels of Thomas and Philip and Truth - Syriac Christian Church Gospels of Thomas and Philip and Truth - Syriac Christian Church
evealed so that forgetfulness might dissolve and the Father be recognized. Since amnesia occurred because the Father was not recognized, thereafter when the Father is recognized there will be no more forgetting. 5. This is the Gospel of him who is sought, which he has revealed to those perfected thru the mercies of the Father as the secret mystery: Yeshua the Christ! He enlightened those who were in darkness because of forgetfulness. He illumined them. He gave them a path, and that path is the truth which he proclaimed. 6. Therefore confusion was enraged at him and pursued him in order to suppress and eliminate him. He was nailed to a crossbeam,¹ he became the fruit of recognizing the Father. Yet it did not cause those who consumed it to perish, but rather to those who consumed it he bestowed a rejoicing at such a discovery. For he found them in himself and they found him in themselves²— the Inconceivable Incomprehensible, the Father, this perfect-one who created the totality, within whom the totality exists and of whom the totality has need. For he had withheld within himself their perfection, which he had not yet conferred upon them all. (¹anti-Gnostic: Dt 21:22-23, Jn 19:18, Ac 10:39; ²Jn 14:20) 7. The Father is not jealous, for what envy could there be between him and his members?¹ For if the way of this aeon had prevailed they would not have been able to come unto the Father, who retains within himself their fulfillment and bestows it upon them as a return to himself with a recognition which is single in perfection. It is he who ordained the totality, and the totality is within him² and the totality had need of him. It is like a person with whom some have been unacquainted, yet who desires that they recognize and love him. For what did they all lack except acquaintance with the Father? (Jn 14:9; ¹cp. Mk 15:10!, Th 77; ²Ph 21) 94
8. Thus he became a reposeful and leisurely guide in the place of instruction. The Logos came to the midst° and spoke as their appointed teacher. There approached those who considered themselves wise, putting him to the test— yet he shamed them in their vanity. They hated him because they were not truly wise. Then after them all there also approached the little children, those who are acquaintanted with the Father. Having been confirmed, they learned of the face-forms° of the Father.¹ They recognized, they were recognized; they were glorified, they glorified. Revealed in their heart was the living book of life, this which is inscribed in the thought and mind of the Father and which has been within his incomprehensibility since before the foundation of the totality. No one can take this (book) away, because it was appointed for him who would take it and be slain.² (Isa 5:21, Mt 18:10; ¹Ps 17:15, Clement of Alexandria, Stromata V.6: ‘The Son is said to be the Father's face, being the revealer of the Father's character to the five senses by clothing Himself with flesh’; ²anti-Gnostic) 9. No one of those who trusted in salvation could have become manifest unless this book had come to the midst This is why the merciful and faithful-one— Yeshua!— patiently endured the sufferings in order to take this book, since he knew that his death is life for many.¹ Just as the fortune of the deceased master of the estate remains secret until his bequest is opened, so also the totality remained hidden so long as the Father of the totality was invisible— this-one thru whom all dimensions originate. This is why Yeshua appeared, clothed in that book. (Rev/Ap 5:1-5; ¹anti- Gnostic) 10. He was nailed to a crossbeam¹ in order to publish the edict of the Father on the cross. Oh sublime teaching, such that he humbled himself unto death while clad in eternal life! He stripped off the rags of mortality in order to don this imperishability which 95
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evealed so that forgetfulness might dissolve <strong>and</strong> the Father be<br />
recognized. Since amnesia occurred because the Father was not<br />
recognized, thereafter when the Father is recognized there will be<br />
no more forgetting.<br />
5. This is the Gospel <strong>of</strong> him who is sought, which he has revealed<br />
to those perfected thru the mercies <strong>of</strong> the Father as the secret<br />
mystery: Yeshua the Christ! He enlightened those who were in<br />
darkness because <strong>of</strong> forgetfulness. He illumined them. He gave<br />
them a path, <strong>and</strong> that path is the truth which he proclaimed.<br />
6. Therefore confusion was enraged at him <strong>and</strong> pursued him in<br />
order to suppress <strong>and</strong> eliminate him. He was nailed to a<br />
crossbeam,¹ he became the fruit <strong>of</strong> recognizing the Father. Yet it<br />
did not cause those who consumed it to perish, but rather to<br />
those who consumed it he bestowed a rejoicing at such a<br />
discovery. For he found them in himself <strong>and</strong> they found him in<br />
themselves²— the Inconceivable Incomprehensible, the Father,<br />
this perfect-one who created the totality, within whom the totality<br />
exists <strong>and</strong> <strong>of</strong> whom the totality has need. For he had withheld<br />
within himself their perfection, which he had not yet conferred<br />
upon them all. (¹anti-Gnostic: Dt 21:22-23, Jn 19:18, Ac 10:39; ²Jn 14:20)<br />
7. The Father is not jealous, for what envy could there be<br />
between him <strong>and</strong> his members?¹ For if the way <strong>of</strong> this aeon had<br />
prevailed they would not have been able to come unto the Father,<br />
who retains within himself their fulfillment <strong>and</strong> bestows it upon<br />
them as a return to himself with a recognition which is single in<br />
perfection. It is he who ordained the totality, <strong>and</strong> the totality is<br />
within him² <strong>and</strong> the totality had need <strong>of</strong> him. It is like a person<br />
with whom some have been unacquainted, yet who desires that<br />
they recognize <strong>and</strong> love him. For what did they all lack except<br />
acquaintance with the Father? (Jn 14:9; ¹cp. Mk 15:10!, Th 77; ²Ph 21)<br />
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