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Historical Library · Nag Hammadi
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Source and translation notes
Anonymous. The prologue attributes the sayings to Didymos Judas Thomas; this is not proof of historical authorship.
Nag Hammadi Codex II (NHAM 02), pp. 32–51 · Sahidic Coptic with Lycopolitan features
English witness: . .
Prologue 0 and sayings 1-114 are retained. Numbered paragraphs within a saying are modern reader units, not ancient verse numbering.
Gospel of Thomas 22:1
The Little Ones
Story guide: The sheltered little ones accompany the saying’s opening comparison; the image does not turn its later language about unity into a bodily transformation.
Open this scene in the reader →1Jesus saw some little ones being suckled. He said to his disciples, “These little ones who are being suckled are like those who are to enter the Kingdom.” They said to him, “Shall we, being little ones, enter the Kingdom?” Jesus said to them, “When you make the two one; and when you make the inner like the outer and the outer like the inner, and the upper like the lower; and when you make the male and the female into a single one, so that the male is not male and the female not female; and when you make eyes in the place of an eye, and a hand in the place of a hand, and a foot in the place of a foot, and an image in the place of an image—then you will enter the Kingdom.”
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