Gospels of Thomas and Philip and Truth - Syriac Christian Church

Aramaic (20): Semitic language of the ancient world, dated by extra-Biblical
records to 3000 BC, source of Hebrew square-letter alphabet, the language of
Abraham (Dt 26:5) as well as of Christ in his ministry (Mk 5:41 7:34 15:34, Mt 27:46);
Gen 22:20-21, II-Ki 18:26, Isa 36:11.
Atone (8 51 73 82 88 96 141): Copt swte (C362a) = Gk ΛΥΤΡΟΩ = Heb rpk
(kpr: cover, substitute; as in ‘Yom Kippur’: Day of Atonement); personal sacrifice or
suffering, by the guilty or by the innocent, which serves to reconcile the guilty (Lev
1:1-4 16:1-34, Isa 53, Mt 5:10-12 20:28, Th 58 68 69a); see Sacrament and Tr 1;
Anne Frank, Diary: ‘Maybe our religion will teach the world and all the people in it
about goodness, and that's the reason, the only reason, we have to suffer.’
Authority (13): Gk ΑΡΧΩΝ (original-being); an official within society; see World/
System in Th Notes.
Baptism (47 73 81 82 96 97 101 115): Gk ΒΑΠΤΙΣΜΑ (immersion); the
sacrament of spiritual cleansing re the Torah— see Sacrament, Isa 1:16-17, Mk 1:4,
Mt 28:19, Ac 1:22, Tr 37, John the Baptist in Th Notes.
Bedroom (131 136 140 142): Gk ΚΟΙΤΩΝ; see also Bridal-Chamber.
Breath (42): see Spirit.
Bridal-Chamber (65 71 72 73 82 94 95 101 108 112 131 143: see Bridal-
Chamber in Th Notes); (79 84 86 87 89: Gk ΠΑΣΤΟΣ); see also Bedroom,
Sacrament, and Ph 64 (the Sacrament of Marriage, the Pure Mating), 85 (the
Sacrament of the Mating), 104 109 131 (the Immaculate Marriage), 142 (the
Sacraments of this Marriage).
Cain (46): Heb Nyq (product and hence possession); that is, ‘my or our product’
rather than ‘product of God’, perhaps indicating that the ‘original transgression’ of
humans consisted in claiming (Godlike) to create and hence to judge their offspring;
Gen 2:15-4:1, Ecl 11:5!— see Ph 93 129, as well as ‘Theogenesis’.
Chrism (28 51 52 71 72 73 80 81 88 98 101 118 141): Gk ΧΡΙΣΜΑ (unguent) =
Copt ne6 (C240b), so2n (C388b), tw6s (C461b); the sacrament of anointing with
olive oil, christification; see Anointed, Sacrament, Tr 41.
Christ (4): Gk ΧΡΙΣΤΟΣ; see Anointed.
Christic (6 14 48 53 63 72 101 103 108): Gk ΧΡΙΣΤΙΚΟΣ (follower of Christ) =
Heb ‘Messianic’ (follower of the Messiah).
Communion (106): Copt 4lhl (C559a); communicating with God, prayer: The
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