Metalogos The Gospels of Thomas & Philip & Truth

thus, the Armenian canon includes a Pauline
III Corinthians; the Coptic NT contains I+II
Clement; the Syrian/ Nestorian Peshitta
excludes II+III John, Jude, and Rev/Ap; the
Ethiopian Bible adds books called the
Sínodos, the Epistle of Peter to Clement, the
Book of the Covenant, and the Didascalia;
and John's Rev/Ap is still not included in the
Greek Orthodox Bible! (see Biblio.35)
Notably, however, the Gospels of
Thomas, Philip and Truth were evidently not
known to any of those traditions at the time
of their attempts at establishing a NT
canon, never being so much as mentioned
in their protracted deliberations— and hence
were never even under consideration for
inclusion in their respective listings. In any
case, the concept of a canon was certainly
never intended to exclude the possible
inspiration of any subsequent textual
discoveries or isolated agrapha (Lk 1:1, Jn
21:25).
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