Metalogos The Gospels of Thomas & Philip & Truth

7.2 contemplation
7.3 repose
(5) The Paul Paradox
Περιπατωµεν κατα τας εντολας αυτου! (II-Jn 6)
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Those who study the New Testament may
well note that popular ‘red-letter’ editions of the
text, with Christ's words thus highlighted, contain
virtually no such rubrics thruout the Epistles of
Paul. With the sole exception of the eucharistic
formula at I-Cor 11:24-25, he does not quote any
sayings of the historical Yeshua/Jesus, either as
found in the written Gospels or from a
contemporaneous oral tradition. 1 Indeed
furthermore, he never even once alludes to the
panorama of the Savior's biography from the
Nativity up to the Passion, as well as his elaborate
teaching presented there, which fill the pages of
1 Although, astonishingly, at Ac 13:24-25 he does quote John the Baptist! Ac
20:35, on the other hand, is actually a citation from Thucidides'
Peloponnesian War II.97.4; whilst Ac 26:14 is in fact from lines 1660-1 of
Aeschylus' Agamemnon.
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