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Alexandria: A History and a Guide

Chapter 63: Appendix III. THE UNCANONICAL GOSPELS OF EGYPT. (p. 73).
By E. M. Forster
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The author traces the city's development across more than two millennia, arranging material as a pageant of periods: the Hellenistic age under the Ptolemies, including Cleopatra and Greco-Egyptian literature and science; the Roman and Christian era with its changing fortunes and episodes such as the murder of Hypatia; a reflective interlude on Pagan and Christian philosophy and religion; the long Arab period; and a modern phase of reconstruction culminating in nineteenth-century reforms and later events. A second, practical guide provides maps, site-by-site directions, and cross-references that link present remains to their historical contexts.

Appendix III.
 
THE UNCANONICAL GOSPELS OF EGYPT.
 
(p. 73).

(i). From the Gospel according to the Egyptians.

The Lord said unto Salome, who asked how long death would prevail, “As long as ye women bear children. I have come to undo the work of woman.” And Salome said “Then have I done well in that I have not born children.” The Lord answered and said “Eat every plant, but that which has bitterness eat not.” When Salome asked when would be known the things about which he spake (i.e. the Last Judgement) the Lord said “Whenever ye put off the garment of shame, when the two become one, and the male with the female, there being neither male nor female.”

(ii). From the Gospel according to the Hebrews.

Jesus saith:—“Let not him who seeks cease until he find and when he finds he shall be astonished; astonished, he shall reach the Kingdom, and having reached the Kingdom he shall rest.”

(iii). From uncertain sources (about 200 A.D.)

Jesus saith:—“Except ye fast to the world, ye shall in no wise find the Kingdom of God; and except ye make the sabbath a real sabbath, ye shall not see the Father.”

Jesus saith:—“Wherever there are two, they are not without God, and when ever there is one alone, I say, I am with him. Raise the stone and there thou shalt find me; cleave the wood, and there am I.”