Lost scriptures: books that did not make it into the New Testament by [edited by] Bart D. Ehrman Page B

and (of)
    When light had spoken through his
    knowledge to those who have committed
    mouth, as well as his voice which gave
    sin in their error. Make firm the foot of
    birth to life, he gave them thought and
    those who have stumbled and stretch out
    understanding and mercy and salvation
    your hands to those who are ill. Feed
    and the powerful spirit from the infinitethose who are hungry and give repose to ness and the sweetness of the Father.
    those who are weary, and raise up those
    Having made punishments and tortures
    who wish to rise, and awaken those who
    cease—for it was they which were leadsleep. For you are the understanding that ing astray from his face some who were
    is drawn forth. If strength acts thus, it
    in need of mercy, in error and in bonds—
    becomes even stronger. Be concerned
    he both destroyed them with power and
    with yourselves; do not be concerned
    confounded them with knowledge. He
    with other things which you have rejected
    became a way for those who were gone
    from yourselves. Do not return to what
    astray and knowledge for those who were
    you have vomited to eat it. Do not be
    ignorant, a discovery for those who were
    moths. Do not be worms, for you have
    searching, and a support for those who
    already cast it off. Do not become a
    were wavering, immaculateness for those
    (dwelling) place for the devil, for you
    who were defiled.
    have already destroyed him. Do not
    He is the shepherd who left behind the
    strengthen (those who are) obstacles to

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    you who are collapsing, as though (you
    every form (and) every sound. For it is
    were) a support (for them). For the lawnot the ears that smell the fragrance, but less one is someone to treat ill rather than
    (it is) the breath that has the sense of
    the just one. For the former does his work
    smell and attracts the fragrance to itself
    as a lawless person; the latter as a righand is submerged in the fragrance of the teous person does his work among others.
    Father, so that he thus shelters it and takes
    So you, do the will of the Father, for you
    it to the place where it came from, from
    are from him.
    the first fragrance which is grown cold. It
    For the Father is sweet and in his will is
    is something in a psychic form, being like
    what is good. He has taken cognizance of
    cold water which has frozen (?), which is
    the things that are yours that you might
    on earth that is not solid, of which those
    find rest in them. For by the fruits does
    who see it think it is earth; afterwards it
    one take cognizance of the things that are
    dissolves again. If a breath draws it, it
    yours because the children of the Father
    gets hot. The fragrances, therefore, that
    are his fragrance, for they are from the
    are cold are from the division. For this
    grace of his countenance. For this reason
    reason faith came; it dissolved the divithe Father loves his fragrance and manision, and it brought the warm pleroma of fests it in every place, and if it mixes with
    love in order that the cold should not
    matter he gives his fragrance to the light
    come again but there should be the unity
    and in his repose he causes it to surpass
    of perfect thought. . . .

    The Gospel of the Savior
    The most recent Gospel to be discovered is called the Gospel of the Savior.
    It poses real difficulties for translator and reader alike, since so much of its text has been destroyed (i.e., there are numerous holes in the manuscript).
    Nonetheless, it was obviously once an intriguing account of Jesus’ life—or at least of his last hours. For the surviving portion of the text recounts the final instructions of Jesus to his disciples, his prayer to God that the “cup”
    might be taken away from him, and then a final address—to the cross itself.
    Whether this Gospel originally contained an entire account of Jesus’ life and death cannot be determined.1
    There are numerous differences between the surviving passages of this Gospel and the parallel accounts in the New