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Even in ancient times, if one sown seed produced a plant with only one seed head with a scant 8 seed kernels in that head, a ratio of 1 to 8--- that would barely be an average yield on good ground. A ratio of planted seed to yield of seed kernels of 1 to 3 on the good ground --- as you suggest base...

You need to unthink the canonicals if you want to read Thomas, as it apparently is blocking your mind and ability to interpret. This is not about “my mind” or my "ability to interpret”, it’s about the interpretation offered, whether mine or yours. Why do you often find it necessary to personal...

@ mlinssen (and of course anyone interested) I've put this comment in a new thread to avoid getting further off-topic in the thread on "The Matthean Posteriority Hypothesis". Not directly related to our previous discussion in the other thread, I have a comment on logion 9 about the odd, tw...

@ mlinssen OK, so Simon Peter represents --- or serves as stand-in, or serves as a model of, or some such --- the Rock of logion 9, as apparently indicated on page 148 of your commentary. (“Simon Peter … The Rock of logion 9, and the Tanakh, and the core of Judaism” p. 148) And the failure of the s...

@ mlinssen OK, so Simon Peter represents --- or serves as stand-in, or serves as a model of, or some such --- the Rock of logion 9, as apparently indicated on page 148 of your commentary. (“Simon Peter … The Rock of logion 9, and the Tanakh, and the core of Judaism” p. 148) And the failure of the se...

mlinssen wrote: ↑Wed Apr 20, 2022 8:55 am ... Simon doesn't exist yet in logion 9 ...

Sure, the personal name hasn't been introduced yet, But ... ???

In your linked commentary on logion 13, you wrote that “Simon Peter … The Rock of logion 9, and the Tanakh, and the core of Judaism” (p. 148)

Simon Peter is in Thomas, logion 13 and 114 ... With absolute Thomasine priority, how would you account for the previously unknown personal name “Peter” in logia 13 and 114 in GThomas? ... 3) The name points to logion 9, that of the Sower ⲁ ⲩ ϩⲉ ⲉϫⲛ ̅ ⲧ ⲡⲉⲧⲣⲁ - did they fall upon The Rock Singular,...

Roman poet and essayist Juvenal wrote from the perspective of the privileged classes in his satirical commentaries on city life in Rome around 100 CE. Juvenal engaged in a sustained expose on the perfidy of wealthy Roman wives in his essay, The Ways of Women (Satire 6). His essay is chock-a-block w...

Paul’s spiritual system was about Gentiles gaining full participation with the God of Israel --- without the benefit of circumcision --- by means of faith in his JC figure. Paul derived his redemptive and salvific JC figure, his conduit to the God of the Jews, from his creative and generative readin...

Simon Peter is in Thomas, logion 13 and 114 ... Quick question. With your theory of absolute Thomasine priority (admittedly not having read all of your posts or articles) --- How would you account for the name “Peter” in logia 13 and 114 in GThomas? If I understand correctly, logia 13 and 114 are n...