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25 Dec 2016

Gospel of Thomas Saying 42 - GospelThomas.com + commentary

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    Title: Gospel of Thomas Saying 42 - GospelThomas.com + commentary
    Link: http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/thomas/gospelthomas42.html

    http://gnosis.org/naghamm/gosthom.html is a nice full text of the gospel “Be passerby!” “Marvin Meyer writes: “This saying may also be translated ‘Be wanderers’; compare descriptions in early Christian literature of wandering teachers and missionaries. Another possible but less likely translation is, ‘Come into being as you pass away’;”