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Metalogos The Gospels of Thomas & Philip & Truth

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they would not have designated<br />

anything as a worldly evil, nor would<br />

they have been placed within worldly<br />

events. <strong>The</strong>re is a destiny for them in<br />

eternity. (¹asyndeton; note this extraordinary<br />

analysis <strong>of</strong> commonplace religious language as<br />

itself both perverted and perverting; Samuel<br />

Beckett, Endgame: ‘I use the words you taught<br />

me. If they don’t mean anything any more, teach<br />

me others. Or let me be silent’; see also Ph 13,<br />

and cp. Clement <strong>of</strong> Alexandria, Stromata V.14: ‘We<br />

are not to think <strong>of</strong> God according to the opinion <strong>of</strong><br />

the multitude.’)<br />

11. One single name they do not utter<br />

in the world— the name which the<br />

Father bestowed upon himself by<br />

means <strong>of</strong> the Son, this existent name <strong>of</strong><br />

the Father, (which) he exalts over all.<br />

(Th 77, Tr 45) For the Son could not<br />

become the Father, unless he were<br />

given the name <strong>of</strong> the Father. This<br />

existing name they are made to have in<br />

thought, yet nonetheless they speak it<br />

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