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4. A nationalist° does not die, for he has never lived so that he could die.¹ Whoever has trusted° the truth (became) alive— and this-one is in danger of dying (as a martyr), for he is alive since the day that the Christ° came. (Gen 12:1-3, Isa 40:17, Mt 24:9; ¹Desiderius Erasmus, In Praise of Folly: ‘It really makes little difference when such a man dies; he has never lived.’) 5. The system is contrived, the cities are constructed, the dead are carried out. (asyndeton; Isa 40:17, Rev/Ap 18, Lk 9:60, Ph 105) 6. In the days when we were Hebrews we were orphaned, having only our Mother (the Spirit°). Yet when we became Messianics°, the Father came to be with the Mother for us. 7. Those who sow in the winter reap in the summer. The winter is the world,¹ the summer is the other aeon°. Let us sow in the world so that we will harvest in the summer. Because of this, it is appropriate for us not to be made to pray in the wintertime. What emerges from the winter is the summer. Yet if anyone reaps in the winter he will not harvest but rather uproot, as this method will not produce fruit. Not only does it (not) come forth [in the winter], but in the other Sabbath also his field shall be fruitless. (¹asyndeton; Mt 6:1-6, Th 14 27) 8. The Christ came! Some indeed he ransoms, yet others he saves, yet for others he atones°. Those who were alienated he ransomed,¹ he brought them to himself. And he saved those who came to him— these he set as pledges in his desire. Not only when he appeared did he appoint the soul as he desired, but since the day of the world's origin he appointed the soul. At the time he desires he came first to fetch it, since it was placed among the pledges. It came to be under the bandits and they took it captive. Yet he saved it, and he atoned for both the good and the evil in the world. (¹asyndeton; Mk 10:45, Jn 10:17-18; cp. Justin Martyr, Dialogue with Trypho 47 [ca. 160 AD]: ‘Our Lord Jesus Christ said: As I find you, thus shall I judge 52
you.’) 9. The light with the darkness, life with death, the right with the left are brothers one to another. It is not possible for them to be separated from one another. Because of this, neither are the good good, nor are the evils evil, nor is the life a life, nor is death a death. Therefore each individual shall be resolved into his origin from (the) beginning. Yet those exalted above the world are immortal (and¹) are in eternity°. (¹asyndeton; Isa 45:7, Lam 3:38; cp. the Chinese Tao) 10. The names which are given by the worldly— therein is a great confusion°. For their hearts are turned away from the real unto the unreal. And he who hears the (word) ‘God’ does not think of the real, but rather he is made to think of the unreal. So also with (the words) ‘the Father’ and ‘the Son’ and ‘the Sacred Spirit’ and ‘the Life’ and ‘the Light’ and ‘the Resurrection’ and ‘the Convocation°’ [and] all the other (words)— they do not think of the real, but rather they are made to think of the [un]real. [...] Moreover they learned the [all-human] reality of death. They are in the system,¹ [they are made to think of the unreal]. If they were in eternity, they would not have designated anything as a worldly evil, nor would they have been placed within worldly events. There is a destiny for them in eternity. (¹asyndeton; note this extraordinary analysis of commonplace religious language as itself both perverted and perverting; Samuel Beckett, Endgame: ‘I use the words you taught me. If they don’t mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent’; see also Ph 13, and cp. Clement of Alexandria, Stromata V.14: ‘We are not to think of God according to the opinion of the multitude.’) 11. One single name they do not utter in the world— the name which the Father bestowed upon himself by means of the Son, this existent name of the Father, (which) he exalts over all. (Th 77, Tr 45) For the Son could not become the Father, unless he were 53
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compassion of the Father who will h
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Father is the Son. How otherwise wo
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(1) Are the Coptic Gospels Gnostic?
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composed of God’s imagination. VI
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structure of [Mahayana] Buddhist ph
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Pauline Church— which indeed has
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epose? Tales from the Old French,
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he did not know that he was dead [J
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opinion of St Paul, all things cons
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teachings set forth in the Gospel o
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Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth
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celibacy indeed entered Christianit
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Bertrand Russell, ‘An Outline of
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William D. Davies, ‘Paul and Jewi
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primary, but rather a Jewish Christ
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ejecting the [Mosaic] law.... Paul
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