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Metalogos The Gospels of Thomas & Philip & Truth

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inherit anything. For how will the dead<br />

inherit? When the dead inherits the<br />

Living-One, he shall not die; but rather<br />

the dead shall instead live. (Th 111)<br />

4. A nationalist° does not die, for he<br />

has never lived so that he could die.¹<br />

Whoever has trusted° the truth<br />

(became) alive— and this-one is in<br />

danger <strong>of</strong> dying (as a martyr), for he is<br />

alive since the day that the Christ°<br />

came. (Gen 12:1-3, Isa 40:17, Mt 24:9;<br />

¹Desiderius Erasmus, In Praise <strong>of</strong> Folly: ‘It really<br />

makes little difference when such a man dies;<br />

he has never lived.’)<br />

5. <strong>The</strong> system is contrived, the cities<br />

are constructed, the dead are carried<br />

out. (asyndeton; Isa 40:17, Rev/Ap 18, Lk 9:60,<br />

Ph 105)<br />

6. In the days when we were Hebrews<br />

we were orphaned, having only our<br />

Mother (the Spirit°). Yet when we<br />

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