Metalogos The Gospels of Thomas & Philip & Truth

teachers; Mt 5:20 23:1-39, Ac 26:5.
Draw (8): see Inspire.
Everything (6 67): see Totality.
Gnostic (5): re the blatant anti-Gnosticism of
these texts, see Incarnate, Recognition and ‘Are
the Coptic Gospels Gnostic?’, Comm.1, below;
‘Gnosticism’ is by definition metaphysically
Platonic, maintaining that the perceptible universe
and thus all incarnation are illusory; our texts, on
the contrary, share the Biblical view that both the
universe and our incarnations are divinely created.
Heaven (20 44 114): see Sky.
Image/Imagery (22 50 83 84): Gk ΕΙΚΩΝ
(similitude) = Heb Mlc (tselem, from lc [tsel,
shadow]; Gen 1:26); sensory perceptions and/or
mental images, the five senses (Th 19!) together
with memory and the imagination; see ‘Angel,
Image and Symbol’, Commentary 4.
Incarnate (28): Copt 6n- sarc (‘in flesh’—
utilizing the same Gk term as Jn 1:14, ΣΑΡΞ); thus
blatantly anti-Gnostic; see Gnostic.
Inspire (3 114): Copt sok (to blow as the wind
or to flow as water, hence to draw or attract:
C325); see Jn 6:44 (Gk ΕΛΚΩ).
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