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Metalogos The Gospels of Thomas & Philip & Truth

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subliminal, it indeed impels. (Job 14:7-9,<br />

Pro 20:9; ¹asyndeton; ²Aeschylus, Agamemnon<br />

967: ‘When the root lives on, the new leaves come<br />

back’; ³Charles Dickens, Great Expectations: ‘I<br />

was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as<br />

I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I<br />

knew to be wrong.’)<br />

134. Ignorance is the mother <strong>of</strong> [all<br />

evil; (Lk 23:34!, Ac 3:17) and] ignorance<br />

(itself) results from [confusion]. Those<br />

things originating from [ignorance]<br />

neither were nor [are] nor shall be<br />

[among the truthful. Yet] they shall be<br />

perfected when the entire truth is<br />

revealed. For the truth is like ignorance<br />

— if it is hidden it reposes within itself,<br />

yet if it is revealed it is recognized. (<strong>The</strong><br />

truth) is glorious in that it prevails over<br />

ignorance and liberates from confusion.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Logos says ‘You shall know the<br />

truth (and¹) the truth will set you<br />

free!’ (=Jn 8:32!) Ignorance enslaves<br />

(but¹) recognition is freedom. By<br />

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