Gospels of Thomas and Philip and Truth - Syriac Christian Church

thereafter in Mesopotamia.
Joseph the Craftsman (98): Joseph = Heb Pswy (addition); craftsman = Copt
6am4e (C546b), Gk ΤΕΚΤΩΝ (Mt 13:55); husband of the Virgin Mariam; notably
silent thruout the Gospels.
Levi (58): Heb ywl (join, convert); the OT patriarch of the priestly line; Ph 58
could thus be interpreted: ‘The Lord went into the dyeworks of conversion [or, of the
priesthood]....’ (Isa 14:1, Zech 2:11).
Magdalene (36 59): Heb ldgm (migdal: watchtower) Pro 18:10, Isa 5:1-2, Mic
4:8, Lk 8:2, Jn 20:1-18; it should be noted that ΑΠΤΩ in Jn 20:17 means not merely
‘touch, cling to’ but also ‘kindle, ignite’ (as in Lk 8:16) and thus ‘caress’, as also in Lk
7:39.
Mate (30 36 64 65 80 86 87 89 119 120 131 134 142): Copt 6wtr (C726b) = Gk
ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΑ (common-being); sexual union; cp. Israelite ‘concubinage’, non-marital
sexual union (in which any offspring do not inherit), as Abraham with Hagar and
Ketura (Gen 16 & 25:1-6) or King David (IISam 15:16)— forbidden neither by the
Torah nor by Christ (Ex 20:14, Lev 20:10, Mt 5:28 refer only to the wife of another
man, not to an unmarried woman or a widow); see Companion, Prostitution,
Sacrament and Unite.
Measurement (51): Heb lq#-m (m-shql: of-shekel/weighing) is apparently here
being punned with xy#m (mashiakh: Messiah).
Messiah (20): Heb xy#m (mashiakh); see Anointed.
Messianic (6): Heb ‘Messiah’ with Gk suffix -ΙΚΟΣ (thus ‘follower of the
Messiah’); see Christic.
Mirrored (65 93): Gk ΕΙΚΟΝΙΚΟΣ: imaged; see Image in Th Notes.
Mode (122): Gk ΕΙΔΟΣ; the term for the Platonic forms (often as ΙΔΕΑ), as well
as the Aristotelian species; note also the evident allusion to the four primary
elements of ancient physics: earth, water, air and fire (recast in modern formulation
as the four basic states of matter: solid, liquid, gas and plasma).
Mystery (21 64 73 85 89 104 131 136 142): Gk ΜΥΣΤΗΡΙΟΝ; secret or
sacrament, a term from the ancient Mediterranean mystery religions; see
Sacrament, Mk 4:11, Th 62, Tr 5 45.
Nationalist (4): Heb ywg (goy: corpse!) = Gk ΕΘΝΙΚΟΣ; non-Israelite, pagan,
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