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Metalogos The Gospels of Thomas & Philip & Truth

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Aristotelian species; note also the evident allusion<br />

to the four primary elements <strong>of</strong> ancient physics:<br />

earth, water, air and fire (recast in modern<br />

formulation as the four basic states <strong>of</strong> matter:<br />

solid, liquid, gas and plasma).<br />

Mystery (21 64 73 85 89 104 131 136 142):<br />

Gk ΜΥΣΤΗΡΙΟΝ; secret or sacrament, a term from<br />

the ancient Mediterranean mystery religions; see<br />

Sacrament, Mk 4:11, Th 62, Tr 5 45.<br />

Nationalist (4): Heb ywg (goy: corpse!) = Gk<br />

ΕΘΝΙΚΟΣ; non-Israelite, pagan, Gentile, as in Ps<br />

2, Mt 18:17 20:25 24:9, Ac 4:25-26.<br />

Notes.<br />

Natural (126): see Vintage/Kind/Natural in Th<br />

Nazarene (20b): Heb ‘<strong>of</strong> Nazareth’ (NT Gk<br />

spelling ΝΑΖΑΡΗΝΟΣ, as in Mk 1:24); to be<br />

carefully distinguished from:<br />

Nazirite (51): Heb ryzn (nazir: crowned,<br />

consecrated; LXX and NT Gk spelling<br />

ΝΑΖΩΡΑΙΟΣ, as in Num 6:1-8 LXX, Jud 13:5 →<br />

Mt 2:23); Hebrew holy man or woman (1) with<br />

uncut hair, (2) abstaining from products <strong>of</strong> the<br />

grapevine, and (3) avoiding corpses— the latter<br />

two rules <strong>of</strong> which Christ implicitly abrogated (Lk<br />

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