Metalogos The Gospels of Thomas & Philip & Truth

eality (thus in Gen 1:1 LXX, Mk 1:1, Jn 1:1).
Philosopher (13): Gk ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΟΣ (fond of
wisdom); this word (coined by the pre-Socratic
Pythagoras) has no precise Heb/Aram equivalent,
and thus Matthew himself may have used the Gk
word; but see the parallel term at Job 9:4,
bbl Mkx (khakam liba), ‘wise in heart’.
Prophet (52 88): see Oracle.
Rabbi (12): Heb ybr (my great-one) = Copt
no2 (great, C250a); a spiritual authority; Jn 1:38
3:26, Mt 23:7.
Recognition (3 5 39 43 51 56 67 69a 78 80
91 105): Copt sooun (C369b) = Gk ΓΝΩΣΙΣ
(gnosis); this important term means direct
personal acquaintance rather than mere
intellectual knowledge, as in Jn 17:25 and I-Jn 4:7;
see Th 5, Ph 116 122 134, Tr 1 4 6 etc., Incarnate
and Gnostic; NB Bertrand Russell's justly
celebrated Theory of Descriptions, wherein the
essential distinction is drawn between Knowledge
by Acquaintance and Knowledge by Description—
made necessary in English by its use of ‘know’ for
both meanings; other languages utilize two
separate terms, e.g. Spanish ‘conocer’ (from
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