“I shall give you what no eye has seen and what no ear has heard and what no hand has touched and what has never occurred to the human mind.” THATS JESUS LOVE FOR U. SO NEVER GET WORRIED WHEN THGS FAIL. JUST FOCUS UR EYES ON THE LORD now listen did u know this? Peasants digging at the base of a cliff along the Nile River, in 1945, unearthed a tall, sealed clay jar that had been secreted beneath a boulder. The site of the discovery—near the village of Nag Hammadi in Upper Egypt, about 200 miles south of Cairo—is three miles from what had been the ancient Christian monastery of St. Pachomius, founded in the 4th Century. The jar, when broken open, held thirteen leather-bound volumes, or codices, which contained 52 tractates, now collectively known as the Nag Hammadi Library. The writing on the papyrus tractates was in Coptic, an ancient Egyptian language (still used in rituals of the Coptic Church in Egypt and Ethiopia). In 1978, the first complete English translation was published as The Nag Hammadi Library, edited by James Robinson of Claremont Graduate School—“an enormous influence on the study of early Christianity,” as one scholar has remarked on the volume. As long ago as 1985, there were already 397 treatises that had been published on one of the tractates alone—the Gospel of Thomas, which has now come to be known among New Testament scholars as “The Fifth Gospel”.
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