Gospel of Thomas 39 reflects partially the oldest Gnostic myth

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Giuseppe
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Gospel of Thomas 39 reflects partially the oldest Gnostic myth

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Jesus said: The Pharisees and the scribes have taken the keys of knowledge (and) have hidden them. They did not go in, and those who wished to go in they did not allow. But you, be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.

(Thomas 39)

This verse is based on Matthew 23:13 , Luke 11:52 and Matthew 10:16.

But even if it is later than the our judaizing Gospels, it is sufficient to replace the demiurge in the place of "pharisees & scribes", and the passage becomes:

Jesus said: The Demiurge has taken the keys of GNOSIS (and) has hidden them. He did not go in, and those who wished to go in he did not allow. But you, be wise as SERPENTS and innocent as doves.

(Thomas 39)

It is impossible not to see where, according the Gnostic interpretations of Genesis, the Demiurge wanted to eclipse the gnosis and prevent the man from gaining it: in the Eden.

Accordingly, just as in the false Paradise of the Demiurge
the Serpent only could bring the salvation, so the Christians, only by becoming Serpentists (Ophites or Naassenes, adorers of the Serpent revealer of the true Gnosis) could conquer the salvation from the demiurge.

So it becomes clearer and clearer what the Judaizers did: the pharisees became the new evil enemy in order to save the goodness of their same old god, the creator.
Nihil enim in speciem fallacius est quam prava religio. -Liv. xxxix. 16.
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