The Gnostic Gospels (33 page)

34.
Ibid.
, 44.

35.
Tertullian,
De Pudicitia
21.

36.
Testimony of Truth
73.18–22, in
NHL
415.

37.
Ibid.
, 69.9–10, in
NHL
414.

38.
Ibid.
, 69.18, in
NHL
414.

39.
Ibid.
, 44.30–45.4, in
NHL
411. Emphasis added.

40.
Ibid.
, 69.22–24, in
NHL
414.

41.
Ibid.
, 68.8–12, in
NHL
414.

42.
Authoritative Teaching
22.19
(passim)
, in
NHL
278 ff.

43.
Ibid.
, 23.13–14, in
NHL
279.

44.
Ibid.
, 34.19, in
NHL
283.

45.
Ibid.
, 344, in
NHL
282.

46.
Ibid.
, 34.12–13, in
NHL
282.

47.
Ibid.
, 33.4–5, in
NHL
282.

48.
Ibid.
, 34.20–23, in
NHL
283.

49.
Ibid.
, 22.28–34, in NHL 278.

50.
Ibid.
, 34.32–35.16, in
NHL
283.

51.
Ibid.
, 33.4–34.9, in
NHL
282.

52.
Ibid.
, 33.16–17, in
NHL
282.

53.
Ibid.
, 32.30–33.3, in
NHL
282.

54.
Ibid.
, 32.30–32, in
NHL
282.

55.
Ibid.
, 27.6–15, in
NHL
280.

56.
Tertullian,
DE PRAESCR.
7.

57.
Ibid.
, 41.

58.
Ibid.
, 8–11.

59.
Ibid.
,
H.

60.
Irenaeus,
AH
2.27.2.

61.
Clemens Alexandrinus,
EXCERPTA
4.1.

62.
Ibid.
, 41.2.

63.
Ibid.
, 24.1–2

64.
Heracleon, Frag. 37–38, in Origen,
COMM. JO.
13.51–13.53.

65.
Irenaeus,
AH
1.8.3–4.

66.
Heracleon, Frag. 13, in Origen,
COMM. JO.
10.33. For discussion, see E. Pagels,
The Johannine Gospel in Gnostic Exegesis
(Nashville, 1973), 66–74.

67.
Interpretation of Knowledge
5.33, in
NHL
429.

68.
Ibid.
, 6.33–38, in
NHL
429.

69.
For discussion, see Koschorke,
op. cit.
, 69–71; Koschorke, “Eine neugefundene gnostische Gemeindeordnung,” in
Zeitschrift für Theologie und Kirche
76.1 (February 1979), 30–60; J. Turner and E. Pagels, introduction to
Interpretation of Knowledge
(CG XI, 1) in
Nag Hammadi Studies
(Leiden, 1980).

70.
I Corinthians 12:14–21.

71.
Interpretation of Knowledge
18.28–34, in
NHL
433.

72.
Ibid.
, 15.35–17.27, in
NHL
432–433.

73.
Ibid.
, 18.24–25, in
NHL
433.

CHAPTER SIX

1.
John 14:5–6.

2.
Irenaeus,
AH
3.11.7. For discussion, see E. Pagels,
The Johannine Gospel in Gnostic Exegesis
(Nashville, 1973).

3.
Dialogue of the Savior
142.16–19, in
NHL
237.

4.
Gospel of Thomas
38.4–10, in
NHL
121.

5.
F. Wisse, “Gnosticism and Early Monasticism in Egypt,” in
Gnosis: Festschrift für Hans Jonas
(Göttingen, 1978), 431–440.

6.
B. Layton, ed.,
The Rediscovery of Gnosticism
(forthcoming).

7.
Irenaeus,
AH
4.11.2.

8.
Ibid.
, 4.11.2.

9.
Justin Martyr,
Dialogue with Trypho
4.

10.
Gospel of Philip
71.35–72.4, in
NHL
143.

11.
Irenaeus,
AH
1.11.1.

12.
Ibid.
, 1.12.3.

13.
Ibid.
, 1.12.3.

14.
Ibid.
, 1.12.4.

15.
Ibid.
, 1.30.6.

16.
Romans 3:23.

17.
Mark 1:15.

18.
John 3:17–19.

19.
Irenaeus,
AH
1.5.4.

20.
Gospel of Truth
17.10–16, in
NHL
38.

21.
Ibid.
, 28.16–17, in
NHL
42.

22.
Ibid.
, 29.2–6, in
NHL
43.

23.
Ibid.
, 29.8–30.12, in
NHL
43.

24.
Ibid.
, 21.35–36, in
NHL
40.

25.
Ibid.
, 24.32–25.3, in
NHL
41.

26.
Dialogue of the Savior
134.1–22, in
NHL
234.

27.
Gospel of Thomas
45.30–33, in
NHL
126.

28.
Ibid.
, 33.11–13, in
NHL
118.

29.
Book of Thomas the Contender
138.13, in
NHL
189.

30.
Gospel of Thomas
38.23–29, in
NHL
121. For a discussion of these metaphors, see H. Jonas,
The Gnostic Religion
(Boston, 1963), 48–96, and G. MacRae, “Sleep and Awakening in Gnostic Texts,” in
Le Origini dello Gnosticismo
, 496–507.

31.
Professors M. L. Peel and J. Zandee have stated that the
Teachings of Silvanus
is clearly “non-Gnostic” (
NHL
346). Nevertheless, what Peel and Zandee describe as characteristic of gnostic teaching (dualistic theology, docetic Christology, the doctrine that “only some persons are saved ‘by nature’ ”) does not, as they apparently assume, characterize such teaching as that of Valentinus (which undisputably
is
gnostic). The
Teachings of Silvanus
certainly is unique among the Nag Hammadi find in that most of its elements do not contradict orthodox doctrine. Whether or not it is itself a gnostic document, I suggest that what warrants its inclusion with gnostic writings is its premise that divine reason (and, apparently, divine nature) is discovered
within
oneself.

32.
Teachings of Silvanus
88.24–92.12, in
NHL
340–350.

33.
Gospel of Thomas
32.14–19, in
NHL
118.

34.
Dialogue of the Savior
125.18–19, in
NHL
231.

35.
Teachings of Silvanus
85.24–106.14, in
NHL
347–356.

36.
Ibid.
, 106.30–117.20, in
NHL
356–361.

37.
Gospel of Truth
21.11–22.15, in
NHL
40.

38.
Ibid.
, 32.38–39, in
NHL
44.

39.
Ibid.
, 32.31–33.14, in
NHL
44.

40.
Gospel of Thomas
32.19–33.5, in
NHL
118. Emphasis added.

41.
Ibid.
, 42.7–51.18, in
NHL
123–130.

42.
Ibid.
, 37.20–35, in
NHL
121.

43.
Mark 9:1; cf. Mark 14:62.

44.
Ibid.
, 13:5–7.

45.
Luke 17:21.

46.
Mark 8:27–29.

47. Matthew 16:17–18.

48.
Gospel of Thomas
34.30–35.7, in
NHL
119.

49.
Ibid.
, 50.28–30, in
NHL
129.

50.
Book of Thomas the Contender
138.13, in
NHL
189.

51.
Gospel of Thomas
48.20–25, in
NHL
128.

52.
Ibid.
, 40.20–23, in
NHL
122.

53.
Dialogue of the Savior
132.15–16, in
NHL
233.

54.
Ibid.
, 126.5–8, in
NHL
231.

55.
Ibid.
, 140.3–4, in
NHL
236.

56.
Testimony of Truth
44.2, in
NHL
410–411.

57.
Ibid.
, 43.26, in
NHL
410.

58.
Ibid.
, 44.13–16, in
NHL
411.

59.
Teachings of Silvanus
97.18–98.10, in
NHL
352.

60.
Matthew 2:15,
passim.

61.
Justin, I
Apology
31.

62.
Gospel of Thomas
42.13–18, in
NHL
124.

63.
Irenaeus,
AH
1.11.1.

64.
Ibid.
, 1.2.2.

65.
Gospel of Philip
54.13–15, in
NHL
133.

66.
Ibid.
, 67.9–12, in
NHL
140.

67.
Ibid.
, 61.24–26, in
NHL
137.

68.
Ibid.
, 61.29–35, in
NHL
137.

69.
Ibid.
, 67.26–27, in
NHL
140.

70.
Book of Thomas the Contender
138.16–18, in
NHL
189.

71.
Hippolytus,
REF
6.9.

72.
Ibid.
, 6.17.

73.
Gospel of Thomas
33.14–19, in
NHL
118.

74.
Plotinus, “Against the Gnostics,”
Enneads
2.9.

75.
Zostrianos
1.12, in
NHL
369.

76.
Ibid.
, 2.8–9, in NHL 369.

77.
Ibid.
, 3.14–21, in
NHL
370.

78.
Ibid.
, 3.29–30, in
NHL
370.

79.
Ibid.
, 131.16–132.5, in
NHL
393.

80.
Discourse on the Eighth and the Ninth
52.1–7, in
NHL
292.

81.
Ibid.
, 53.7–10, in
NHL
293.

82.
Ibid.
, 52.15–18, in
NHL
293.

83.
Ibid.
, 54.23–25, in
NHL
293.

84.
Ibid.
, 56.10–12, in
NHL
294.

85.
Ibid.
, 56.17–22, in
NHL
294.

86.
Ibid.
, 57.3–11, in
NHL
294.

87.
Ibid.
, 57.31–58.22, in
NHL
295.