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Metalogos The Gospels of Thomas & Philip & Truth

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we are ripened. (Th 25, Ph 116; Gustave<br />

Flaubert, Madame Bovary: ‘Manure and rain and<br />

sun and wind bring on the flowers’; Clement <strong>of</strong><br />

Alexandria, Stromata V.3: ‘An ignorant man has<br />

sought; and having sought, he finds the teacher;<br />

and finding, has believed; and believing, has<br />

hoped; and henceforward, having loved, is<br />

assimilated to what was loved— such is the<br />

method Socrates shows.’)<br />

123. Grace caused [the humble soul <strong>of</strong><br />

the] person <strong>of</strong> earth to be made<br />

sovereign [over ...] what is above<br />

Heaven.¹ <strong>The</strong>y [received] among the<br />

Blest This one by his [Logos truly<br />

uplifts] their souls. (¹Th 2! 11!)<br />

124. This is Yeshua the Christ— he<br />

beguiled the entire place and did not<br />

burden anyone. <strong>The</strong>refore, blest is this<br />

perfected person <strong>of</strong> this kind; for this<br />

one (is) the Logos. (Ph 29)<br />

125. Ask us concerning him, inasmuch<br />

as this (attempt to portray) him<br />

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