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Metalogos The Gospels of Thomas & Philip & Truth

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(asyndeton; Th 87)<br />

113. His Disciples say to him: When<br />

will the Sovereignty come? || (Yeshua<br />

says:) It shall not come by expectation.<br />

<strong>The</strong>y will not say: Behold here! or:<br />

Behold there! But the Sovereignty <strong>of</strong><br />

the Father is spread upon the earth,<br />

and humans do not perceive it. (anti-<br />

Gnostic!; Lk 17:20-21, Th 51; Henry David<br />

Thoreau, Walden: ‘Heaven is under our feet as<br />

well as over our heads.’)<br />

114. Shimon Kefa says to them: Let<br />

Mariam depart from among us, for<br />

women are not worthy <strong>of</strong> the life.<br />

(Pro 31:3, Ecc 7:28!) || Yeshua says: Behold,<br />

I shall inspire° her so that I make her<br />

male, in order that she herself shall<br />

become a living spirit like you males.¹<br />

For every female who becomes male<br />

shall enter the Sovereignty <strong>of</strong> the<br />

Heavens. (¹exquisitely ironical, since ‘spirit’ in<br />

Aramaic— the original language <strong>of</strong> the logion— is<br />

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