Spot on David!
Thomas is ridiculing the dumb disciples, he thinks very little of followers
12 said the Disciples to IS : we know : you will go from-the-hand-of us who? is who will make-be great upward upon us m
said IS behold : the place have you(PL) come therein you(PL) will go toward Jacob the Righteous this have the heaven with the earth come-to-be because-of him
Jacob the Righteous, indeed Jacob. Who has the heaven and earth come into being?
Nothing sensible from the Commentaries there, as usual
Oh... wait a minute
23 And the LORD said to her, "Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you shall be divided; the one shall be stronger than the other, the older shall serve the younger."
That Jacob
Genesis 28:11 And he came to a certain place and stayed there that night, because the sun had set.
Taking one of the stones of the place, he put it under his head and lay down in that place to sleep.
12 And he dreamed, and behold, there was a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven. And behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it! 13 And behold, the LORD stood above it and said, "I am the LORD, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac. The land on which you lie I will give to you and to your offspring. 14 Your offspring shall be like the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south, and in you and your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed. 15 Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land. For I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you." 16 Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, "Surely the LORD is in this place, and I did not know it."
That Jacob, that heaven
"Sod off to Judaism" is what he tells them. Jacob, renamed Israel, Jacob the Righteous, the poster child of Judaism
not sure the Coptic really supports a literal 'going to' him?
You can click anything in my translation and land straight in the KELLIA Coptic Dictionary Online, and judge for yourself. That is exactly why I made it the way it is, so anyone can make up their own minds
The double concordance now hyperlinks back into every logion as well. There are 25,000 hyperlinks in the document - if you can click, you can become proficient in Thomas within a month
The composite verb is ⲃⲱⲕ ϣⲁ,
http://coptot.manuscriptroom.com/crum-c ... &pageID=29
"Go to" (of persons)
