Metalogos The Gospels of Thomas & Philip & Truth

flesh, (but¹) this also is an incarnate
saying. Whatever thou will say, thou do
not say anything apart from the flesh!²
It is necessary to arise in this flesh,
(as¹) everything exists within it.
(¹asyndeton; ²an astonishing philosophical
argument— emphatically anti-Gnostic and
explicitly anti-Pauline; Job 19:25, Isa 26:19, Dan
12:2, Lk 24:39, Jn 5:25-26, Ac 4:33, Rev-Ap
20:11-13; the I Ching, hexagram 50, the Ritual
Vessel: ‘The truly divine does not manifest itself
apart from humankind’; Moses Maimonides, The
Guide for the Perplexed I.51: ‘Man is [essentially]
a speaking animal.’)
26. In this world they who wear
garments¹ are more valuable than the
garments. In the Sovereignty of the
Heavens the garments² are more
valuable than those whom they have
clothed thru water with fire, which
purify the entire place. (¹of materials; ²of
images; Ps 104:2!, Ph 24 85)
27. The revelations thru those who
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