Gospels of Thomas and Philip and Truth - Syriac Christian Church

Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition, CD-ROM version 2.0: ‘Communion: 3.
Intimate mental or spiritual communing’, i.e. silent prayer— see Mt 6:6; (note that in
Lk 18:1, ΠΑΝΤΟΤΕ ΠΡΟΣΕΥΧΕΣΘΑΙ enjoins praying continually).
Companion (36 59): Gk ΚΟΙΝΩΝΟΣ (associate, partner; NB plural at Lk 5:10!);
the feminine of this Gk word never means ‘wife’ (which would have to be ΓΑΜΕΤΗ
or perhaps ΓΥΝΗ, as in Mt 1:24); contrary to the claim made in the popular novel
The Da Vinci Code (2003), the underlying Hebrew, trbx (khaverét: companion),
does not mean ‘wife’; it is found only at Mal 2:14, where it is explicitly distinguished
from h#) (ishsha: woman, wife)— thus the commonplace masculine form:
rbx (kháver: comrade, as in Ecc 4:10); furthermore, in his highly secretive
Notebooks I.665, Leonardo himself unambiguously refers to that figure in his famous
painting as a male! (‘Notes on the Last Supper’, www.metalog.org/files/
leonardo.html); see Mate.
Complexion (58): Gk ΧΡΩΜΑ (the color of the skin) = Sanskrit varna
(complexion, thus caste!).
Confusion (10 18 22 74b 97 134): Gk ΠΛΑΝΗ (straying; hence ‘planet’ as a
celestial body which appears to stray relative to the fixed stars); see Tr 3ff.
Contemplation (95): Gk ΘΕΩΡΙΑ; here meaning to behold one's imagery as
God's own manifested imagination (Mt 18:10, ‘Angel, Image and Symbol’); the quote
in Aristotle is: Η ΘΕΩΡΙΑ ΤΟ ΗΔΙΣΤΟΝ ΚΑΙ ΑΡΙΣΤΟΝ, ‘Contemplation [of the
intelligible (ΝΟΗΤΟΝ) is] the most delightful and excellent.’
Convocation (10): Gk ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ (called-out); the assembly of those ‘called
forth’ from the world (Mt 16:18 18:1520); this had been the term for the Athenian
Assembly; Ps 22:22.
Defilement (18 64 65): Copt `w6m (C797b) = Gk ΜΙΑΣΜΑ = Heb )m+ (tame);
ritual uncleanness (Lev 15), as opposed to transgression of the Torah (Lev 19)— a
vital distinction; see Torah, compare Transgression in Th Notes.
Disciple (19): Gk ΜΑΘΗΤΗΣ (learner); in Attic Gk, used of the pupils of the
philosophers and rhetoricians, as in Plato's Protagoras 315A; compare Apostle.
Era (70): see Aeon.
Eternal (9 10 109 143): see Aeon.
Eucharist (30 57 73 106): Gk ΕΥΧΑΡΙΣΤΙΑ (well-joying, thanksgiving); the
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