Gospels of Thomas and Philip and Truth - Syriac Christian Church

distant road, the handle of the jar broke, the grain streamed out
behind her onto the road. She did not know it, she had noticed no
accident. When she arrived in her house, she set the jar down—
she found it empty. (multiple asyndeta)
98. Yeshua says: The Sovereignty of the Father is like someone
who wishes to slay a prominent person. He drew forth his sword
in his house,¹ he thrust it into the wall in order to ascertain
whether his hand would prevail. Then he slew the prominent
person. (¹asyndeton; ‘the sword of one's mouth’: Isa 49:2, Rev/Ap 1:16)
99. His Disciples say to him: Thy brethren and thy mother are
standing outside. || He says to them: Those here who practice the
desires of my Father— these are my Brethren and my Mother. It is
they who shall enter the Sovereignty of my Father. (Th 15, =Mt
3:31-35)
100. They show Yeshua a gold-coin, and they say to him: The
agents of Caesar extort tribute from us. || He says to them: Give
the things of Caesar to Caesar, give the things of God to God, and
give to me what is mine. (Rev/Ap 13:18 ← I-Ki 10:14?!: an extraordinary
gematria, indicating 666 as a monetary symbol; =Mt 22:16-21, Th 64b)
101. (Yeshua says:) Whoever does not hate his father and his
mother in my way, shall not be able to become a Disciple to me.
And whoever does [not] love his [Father] and his Mother in my way,
shall not be able to become a Disciple to me. For my mother [bore°
me], yet [my] True¹ [Mother] gave me the life. (Job 33:4; ¹m-.me = ‘of
truth’ [if me is feminine] or ‘of love’ [if it is masculine]— here undetermined, as there
is no definite article [P065, C156]; Jn 2:4, Th 15 79 99, =Lk 14:26; see ‘The Maternal
Spirit’ and ‘Theogenesis’; cp. Odes of St Solomon 35:6— ‘I was carried like a child
by its mother.’)
102. Yeshua says: Woe unto them, the dogmatists— for they are
like a dog sleeping in the manger of oxen. For neither does he eat,
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