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Doresse puts it well, the description of a process
- Thief37
When you work hard to purify you will be given what you need as spiritual insight, especially. Do not become attached to earthly things but be prepared to give them up.
- Zooie
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Scholarly Quotes
Robert M. Grant and David Noel Freedman write: "Angels are the messengers of the Son of Man, e.g., in Matthew 13:41. They give man his true self, the kingdom. It is not clear what the prophets have to do with this. Perhaps the emphasis is on what men give the prophets, for 'many prophets . . . desired to see what you see and did not see it' (Matthew 13:17; Luke 10:24). The day on which they come and take their own is presumably the day of death; compare Luke 12:20 (in the parable of the rich fool, Saying 64): 'This night they will require your soul [life] from you.'" (The Secret Sayings of Jesus, p. 183)
F. F. Bruce writes: "The question at the end is reminiscent of the message received by the rich fool in Luke 12.20: 'This night your soul is required of you' (cf. Saying 63). On the day when mortal life ends the heavenly messengers give men their proper heritage (the kingdom of the Father)." (Jesus and Christian Origins Outside the New Testament, p. 146)
Marvin Meyer writes: "This saying may discuss interactions with itinerant prophets or with heavenly messengers. The word angelos used in the Coptic may be translated either 'messengers' or 'angels.' In the Jewish scriptures and the New Testament, this word may designate either sort of messenger; at times it may indicate a prophet or a human emissary. In the Discourses of Epictetus a Cynic philosopher may be called a 'messenger' of Zeus to humankind." (The Gospel of Thomas: The Hidden Sayings of Jesus, p. 102)
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