Gospels of Thomas and Philip and Truth - Syriac Christian Church

sacrament of bread and wine; see Sacrament (Lk 22:1420).
Eve (76): Heb hwx (living; Gen 3:20); see Cain and Female.
Expectation (122): Gk ΕΛΠΙΣ = Heb hwqt (tiqvah); not mere hoping or wishing,
but rather anticipation— Clement of Alexandria, Stromata II.6: ‘Hope is the
expectation of the possession of good; necessarily, then, is expectation founded on
faith’; Isa 42:9, Jn 16:13!
Female (18): Copt s6ime (C385a); here emphasizing the Sacred Spirit as our
Mother, as in Isa 49:15 66:13, Lk 13:34; see Spirit and ‘The Maternal Spirit’.
Hebrew (1 6 18 50): Heb rb( (eber: cross over, beyond, passer-by, transient;
Th 42!); the lineage of Shem and especially of Abraham (Gen 10:21 14:13 16:15—
thus Ishmael also was a Hebrew).
Heir (98): Copt 2ro2 (C831b: seed, sperm); in light of Ph 18, and as with Gk
ΣΠΕΡΜΑ in Ph 108, this term must here be a metaphor for ‘heir’ rather than
meaning literally ‘progeny’.
Image/Imagery (24 26 30 47 72 84 93 95 130 136 143): see Th Notes.
Inequality (65): Copt at.twt (P063d C438a: not in agreement, not conjoined);
see Conjoin and Th 61b!
Ionian (20): Gk ΙΟΝΙΟΣ (violet) = Heb Nyy/Nwy (yayin/yavan: wine); Hebrew name
for the Greeks (Gen 10:2-5, Dan 8:21); the coast of Asia Minor (now Turkey) was
where Greeks met the ancient middle-eastern civilizations, acquiring the alphabet
via the Semitic-speaking Phoenicians (ΦΟΙΝΙΞ: purple— Gk name for the
Canaanites [Heb: ‘merchants’] of Gen 9:18-10:19 12:5-7, IKi 5, Ezek 27-28; cp. Mt
15:22 with Mk 7:26; according to Herodotus' Histories I, Thales of Miletus— the first
‘pre-Socratic’— was a Phoenician/Canaanite).
Jerusalem (82): Heb Myl#wry (foundations/city of peace); note that Heb hry
(yarah: directive) is the root of both ‘Jeru-’ and ‘Torah’.
Jordan (88): Heb Ndry (descender); the river of the Holy Land, in the northern
extension of Africa's Great Rift Valley; NB apparently the River Pishon of Gen
2:11(!); thus, could the Flood have swept down thru the Jordan Rift Valley?!—
topologically more intelligible, except for the puzzling Ararat (which, however, means
merely ‘sacred/high land’); this would of course place all of Gen 2-9 in the Jordan
Valley, with Gen 10 the first human (i.e. linguistic?!) dispersion, and Gen 11
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