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Nag Hammadi, The Gospel Of Thomas, 27
nan If you do not fast from the world, you will not find the (Father's) kingdom. If you do not observe the sabbath as a sabbath you will not see the Father.

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1. Septuagint, Judith, 7.4 (2nd cent. BCE - 0th cent. CE) 7.4. When the Israelites saw their vast numbers they were greatly terrified, and every one said to his neighbor, "These men will now lick up the face of the whole land; neither the high mountains nor the valleys nor the hills will bear their weight.
2. Philo of Alexandria, On The Special Laws, 2.42 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE) 2.42. The law sets down every day as a festival, adapting itself to an irreproachable life, as if men continually obeyed nature and her injunctions. And if wickedness did not prosper, subduing by their predomit influence all those reasonings about what things might be expedient, which they have driven out of the soul of each individual, but if all the powers of the virtues remained in all respects unsubdued, then the whole time from a man's birth to his death would be one uninterrupted festival, and all houses and every city would pass their time in continual fearlessness and peace, being full of every imaginable blessing, enjoying perfect tranquillity.
3. Anon., Didache, 2.7 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
4. Josephus Flavius, Jewish Antiquities, 14 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
5. New Testament, 1 Corinthians, 7.33 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) 7.33. but he who is married isconcerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife.
6. New Testament, 2 Corinthians, 3.18 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
7. New Testament, Acts, 13.14, 15.21, 16.13-16.15, 17.2, 18.4 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) 13.14. But they, passing through from Perga, came to Antioch of Pisidia. They went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and sat down. 15.21. For Moses from generations of old has in every city those who preach him, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath. 16.13. On the Sabbath day we went forth outside of the city by a riverside, where we supposed there was a place of prayer, and we sat down, and spoke to the women who had come together. 16.14. A certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, one who worshiped God, heard us; whose heart the Lord opened to listen to the things which were spoken by Paul. 16.15. When she and her household were baptized, she begged us, saying, "If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and stay." She urged us. 17.2. Paul, as was his custom, went in to them, and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures 18.4. He reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and persuaded Jews and Greeks.
8. New Testament, Apocalypse, 1.1 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) 1.1. This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John
9. New Testament, Galatians, 4.9-4.11 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) 4.9. But now thatyou have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do youturn back again to the weak and miserable elements, to which you desireto be in bondage all over again? 4.10. You observe days, months,seasons, and years. 4.11. I am afraid for you, that I might havewasted my labor for you.
10. New Testament, Hebrews, 3.7-4.11 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
11. New Testament, Romans, 2.21-2.22, 14.5-14.9 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) 2.21. You therefore who teach another, don't you teach yourself? You who preach that a man shouldn't steal, do you steal? 2.22. You who say a man shouldn't commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples? 14.5. One man esteems one day as more important. Another esteems every day alike. Let each man be fully assured in his own mind. 14.6. He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks. He who doesn't eat, to the Lord he doesn't eat, and gives God thanks. 14.7. For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself. 14.8. For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord's. 14.9. For to this end Christ died, rose, and lived again, that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.
12. New Testament, John, 13.34-13.35 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) 13.34. A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another. 13.35. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.
13. New Testament, Luke, 1.1, 2.42-2.47, 2.52, 3.21 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) 1.1. Since many have undertaken to set in order a narrative concerning those matters which have been fulfilled among us 2.42. When he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem according to the custom of the feast 2.43. and when they had fulfilled the days, as they were returning, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. Joseph and his mother didn't know it 2.44. but supposing him to be in the company, they went a day's journey, and they looked for him among their relatives and acquaintances. 2.45. When they didn't find him, they returned to Jerusalem, looking for him. 2.46. It happened after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both listening to them, and asking them questions. 2.47. All who heard him were amazed at his understanding and his answers. 2.52. And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men. 3.21. Now it happened, when all the people were baptized, Jesus also had been baptized, and was praying. The sky was opened
14. New Testament, Mark, 1.1, 1.9, 2.27, 7.15 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) 1.1. The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. 1.9. It happened in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized by John in the Jordan. 2.27. He said to them, "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. 7.15. There is nothing from outside of the man, that going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man.
15. New Testament, Matthew, 1.1, 3.13, 7.4, 15.11 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) 1.1. The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. 3.13. Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to John, to be baptized by him. 7.4. Or how will you tell your brother, 'Let me remove the speck from your eye;' and behold, the beam is in your own eye? 15.11. That which enters into the mouth doesn't defile the man; but that which proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man.
16. Justin, First Apology, 61 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) 61. I will also relate the manner in which we dedicated ourselves to God when we had been made new through Christ; lest, if we omit this, we seem to be unfair in the explanation we are making. As many as are persuaded and believe that what we teach and say is true, and undertake to be able to live accordingly, are instructed to pray and to entreat God with fasting, for the remission of their sins that are past, we praying and fasting with them. Then they are brought by us where there is water, and are regenerated in the same manner in which we were ourselves regenerated. For, in the name of God, the Father and Lord of the universe, and of our Saviour Jesus Christ, and of the Holy Spirit, they then receive the washing with water. For Christ also said, Unless you be born again, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. John 3:5 Now, that it is impossible for those who have once been born to enter into their mothers' wombs, is manifest to all. And how those who have sinned and repent shall escape their sins, is declared by Esaias the prophet, as I wrote above; he thus speaks: Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from your souls; learn to do well; judge the fatherless, and plead for the widow: and come and let us reason together, says the Lord. And though your sins be as scarlet, I will make them white like wool; and though they be as crimson, I will make them white as snow. But if you refuse and rebel, the sword shall devour you: for the mouth of the Lord has spoken it. Isaiah 1:16-20 And for this [rite] we have learned from the apostles this reason. Since at our birth we were born without our own knowledge or choice, by our parents coming together, and were brought up in bad habits and wicked training; in order that we may not remain the children of necessity and of ignorance, but may become the children of choice and knowledge, and may obtain in the water the remission of sins formerly committed, there is pronounced over him who chooses to be born again, and has repented of his sins, the name of God the Father and Lord of the universe; he who leads to the laver the person that is to be washed calling him by this name alone. For no one can utter the name of the ineffable God; and if any one dare to say that there is a name, he raves with a hopeless madness. And this washing is called illumination, because they who learn these things are illuminated in their understandings. And in the name of Jesus Christ, who was crucified under Pontius Pilate, and in the name of the Holy Ghost, who through the prophets foretold all things about Jesus, he who is illuminated is washed.
17. Justin, Dialogue With Trypho, 46.7 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
18. Tertullian, On Baptism, 20 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) 20. They who are about to enter baptism ought to pray with repeated prayers, fasts, and bendings of the knee, and vigils all the night through, and with the confession of all by- gone sins, that they may express the meaning even of the baptism of John: They were baptized, says (the Scripture), confessing their own sins. To us it is matter for thankfulness if we do now publicly confess our iniquities or our turpitudes: for we do at the same time both make satisfaction for our former sins, by mortification of our flesh and spirit, and lay beforehand the foundation of defences against the temptations which will closely follow. Watch and pray, says (the Lord), lest you fall into temptation. Matthew 26:41 And the reason, I believe, why they were tempted was, that they fell asleep; so that they deserted the Lord when apprehended, and he who continued to stand by Him, and used the sword, even denied Him thrice: for withal the word had gone before, that no one untempted should attain the celestial kingdoms. The Lord Himself immediately after baptism temptations surrounded, when in forty days He had kept fast. Then, some one will say, it becomes us, too, rather to fast after baptism. Well, and who forbids you, unless it be the necessity for joy, and the thanksgiving for salvation? But so far as I, with my poor powers, understand, the Lord figuratively retorted upon Israel the reproach they had cast on the Lord. For the people, after crossing the sea, and being carried about in the desert during forty years, although they were there nourished with divine supplies, nevertheless were more mindful of their belly and their gullet than of God. Thereupon the Lord, driven apart into desert places after baptism, showed, by maintaining a fast of forty days, that the man of God lives not by bread alone, but by the word of God; Matthew 4:1-4 and that temptations incident to fullness or immoderation of appetite are shattered by abstinence. Therefore, blessed ones, whom the grace of God awaits, when you ascend from that most sacred font of your new birth, and spread your hands for the first time in the house of your mother, together with your brethren, ask from the Father, ask from the Lord, that His own specialties of grace and distributions of gifts 1 Corinthians 12:4-12 may be supplied you. Ask, says He, and you shall receive. Well, you have asked, and have received; you have knocked, and it has been opened to you. Only, I pray that, when you are asking, you be mindful likewise of Tertullian the sinner.
19. Nag Hammadi, The Gospel of Philip, 52.21-52.24, 59.30-59.32, 67.24-67.27, 74.16-74.18 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)
20. Nag Hammadi, The Gospel of Thomas, 32.14 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)
21. Origen, Homilies On Leviticus, 10.2 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)
22. Pseudo Clementine Literature, Recognitions, 7.37 (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE) 7.37. Then said Peter: Let not the wicked one prevail against us, taking occasion from a mother's love; but let you, and me with you, fast this day along with her, and tomorrow she shall be baptized: for it is not right that the precepts of truth be relaxed and weakened in favour of any person or friendship. Let us not shrink, then, from suffering along with her, for it is a sin to transgress any commandment. But let us teach our bodily senses, which are without us, to be in subjection to our inner senses; and not compel our inner senses, which savour the things that be of God, to follow the outer senses, which savour the things that be of the flesh. For to this end also the Lord commanded, saying: 'Whosoever shall look upon a woman to lust after her, has committed adultery with her already in his heart.' And to this He added: 'If your right eye offend you, pluck it out, and cast it from you: for it is profitable for you that one of your members perish, rather than your whole body be cast into hell-fire.' Matthew 5:28-29 He does not say, has offended you, that you should then cast away the cause of sin after you have sinned; but if it offend you, that is, that before you sin you should cut off the cause of the sin that provokes and irritates you. But let none of you think, brethren, that the Lord commended the cutting off of the members. His meaning is, that the purpose should be cut off, not the members, and the causes which allure to sin, in order that our thought, borne up on the chariot of sight, may push towards the love of God, supported by the bodily senses; and not give loose reins to the eyes of the flesh as to wanton horses, eager to turn their running outside the way of the commandments, but may subject the bodily sight to the judgment of the mind, and not suffer those eyes of ours, which God intended to be viewers and witnesses of His work, to become panders of evil desire. And therefore let the bodily senses as well as the internal thought be subject to the law of God, and let them serve His will, whose work they acknowledge themselves to be.
23. Anon., Gospel of Thomas, 108, 27, 63, 1

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
abraham, descent from	Lieu, Christian Identity in the Jewish and Graeco-Roman World (2004) 133
adiaphora (indifference)	Blidstein, Purity Community and Ritual in Early Christian Literature (2017) 80
alimentary	Blidstein, Purity Community and Ritual in Early Christian Literature (2017) 80
apostolic succession	Piovanelli, Burke, Pettipiece, Rediscovering the Apocryphal Continent: New Perspectives on Early Christian and Late Antique Apocryphal Textsand Traditions. De Gruyter: 2015 (2015) 141
aramaic	Sigal, The Halakhah of Jesus of Nazareth According to the Gospel of Matthew (2007) 192
asceticism	Pevarello, The Sentences of Sextus and the Origins of Christian Ascetiscism (2013) 181, 198
baptism	Blidstein, Purity Community and Ritual in Early Christian Literature (2017) 80
benefactor	Pevarello, The Sentences of Sextus and the Origins of Christian Ascetiscism (2013) 181
bible (hebrew bible and/or new testament)	Damm, Religions and Education in Antiquity (2018) 22
body and soul	Blidstein, Purity Community and Ritual in Early Christian Literature (2017) 80
book of thomas the contender, catholic christianity	Damm, Religions and Education in Antiquity (2018) 22
bread	Vinzent, Christ's Resurrection in Early Christianity and the Making of the New Testament (2013) 200
calendar	Vinzent, Christ's Resurrection in Early Christianity and the Making of the New Testament (2013) 200
christianity	Sigal, The Halakhah of Jesus of Nazareth According to the Gospel of Matthew (2007) 192
christians	Sigal, The Halakhah of Jesus of Nazareth According to the Gospel of Matthew (2007) 192
circumcision	Lieu, Christian Identity in the Jewish and Graeco-Roman World (2004) 133; Piovanelli, Burke, Pettipiece, Rediscovering the Apocryphal Continent: New Perspectives on Early Christian and Late Antique Apocryphal Textsand Traditions. De Gruyter: 2015 (2015) 141
community	Vinzent, Christ's Resurrection in Early Christianity and the Making of the New Testament (2013) 200
contemplation	Pevarello, The Sentences of Sextus and the Origins of Christian Ascetiscism (2013) 198
coptic language	Damm, Religions and Education in Antiquity (2018) 22, 23, 180, 189
cosmopolitism	Pevarello, The Sentences of Sextus and the Origins of Christian Ascetiscism (2013) 181
david	Sigal, The Halakhah of Jesus of Nazareth According to the Gospel of Matthew (2007) 192
detachment	Pevarello, The Sentences of Sextus and the Origins of Christian Ascetiscism (2013) 181, 198
didache	Damm, Religions and Education in Antiquity (2018) 180
dietary laws in the second-and third-century texts	Blidstein, Purity Community and Ritual in Early Christian Literature (2017) 80
dualism	Pevarello, The Sentences of Sextus and the Origins of Christian Ascetiscism (2013) 181
education, absence of	Damm, Religions and Education in Antiquity (2018) 22, 23, 180, 189
education, aurality/orality and	Damm, Religions and Education in Antiquity (2018) 22
education, coptic	Damm, Religions and Education in Antiquity (2018) 180, 189
education, greco-roman	Damm, Religions and Education in Antiquity (2018) 22
education, jesus and	Damm, Religions and Education in Antiquity (2018) 23, 180, 189
education, judaism/jewish education	Damm, Religions and Education in Antiquity (2018) 22
education, late ancient christianity and	Damm, Religions and Education in Antiquity (2018) 180, 189
education, rhetorical	Damm, Religions and Education in Antiquity (2018) 22
education, solitary learning	Damm, Religions and Education in Antiquity (2018) 23
education and religion	Damm, Religions and Education in Antiquity (2018) 22, 23
ethical education, gnosticism/gnostic christianity	Damm, Religions and Education in Antiquity (2018) 23
ethical education, judaism	Damm, Religions and Education in Antiquity (2018) 22
eucharist	Vinzent, Christ's Resurrection in Early Christianity and the Making of the New Testament (2013) 200
fast	Pevarello, The Sentences of Sextus and the Origins of Christian Ascetiscism (2013) 181, 198
fasting	Blidstein, Purity Community and Ritual in Early Christian Literature (2017) 80; Lieu, Christian Identity in the Jewish and Graeco-Roman World (2004) 133
first letter to timothy	Damm, Religions and Education in Antiquity (2018) 22
food, impurity of in second- and third-century sources	Blidstein, Purity Community and Ritual in Early Christian Literature (2017) 80
gnosticism/gnostic christianity	Damm, Religions and Education in Antiquity (2018) 22, 23
god	Damm, Religions and Education in Antiquity (2018) 22, 189
gospel of thomas, obscurity in	Damm, Religions and Education in Antiquity (2018) 180
gospel of thomas, omissions in	Damm, Religions and Education in Antiquity (2018) 180, 189
gospel of thomas	Damm, Religions and Education in Antiquity (2018) 22, 23, 180, 189
gospels, canonical	Damm, Religions and Education in Antiquity (2018) 22, 23
greek language	Damm, Religions and Education in Antiquity (2018) 22, 23, 180, 189
health, and purity	Blidstein, Purity Community and Ritual in Early Christian Literature (2017) 80
hebrews	Piovanelli, Burke, Pettipiece, Rediscovering the Apocryphal Continent: New Perspectives on Early Christian and Late Antique Apocryphal Textsand Traditions. De Gruyter: 2015 (2015) 141
hope	Vinzent, Christ's Resurrection in Early Christianity and the Making of the New Testament (2013) 200
idolatry	Lieu, Christian Identity in the Jewish and Graeco-Roman World (2004) 133
jesus	Damm, Religions and Education in Antiquity (2018) 23, 180, 189
jews, judaism	Piovanelli, Burke, Pettipiece, Rediscovering the Apocryphal Continent: New Perspectives on Early Christian and Late Antique Apocryphal Textsand Traditions. De Gruyter: 2015 (2015) 141
kingdom	Vinzent, Christ's Resurrection in Early Christianity and the Making of the New Testament (2013) 200
law	Vinzent, Christ's Resurrection in Early Christianity and the Making of the New Testament (2013) 200
lords day	Vinzent, Christ's Resurrection in Early Christianity and the Making of the New Testament (2013) 200
matter	Blidstein, Purity Community and Ritual in Early Christian Literature (2017) 80
meat	Blidstein, Purity Community and Ritual in Early Christian Literature (2017) 80
mishnah	Damm, Religions and Education in Antiquity (2018) 22
nag hammadi codices	Iricinschi et al., Beyond the Gnostic Gospels: Studies Building on the Work of Elaine Pagels (2013) 273
new testament	Damm, Religions and Education in Antiquity (2018) 22, 23, 180
oxyrhynchus papyri	Iricinschi et al., Beyond the Gnostic Gospels: Studies Building on the Work of Elaine Pagels (2013) 273
papyrus	Damm, Religions and Education in Antiquity (2018) 189
penance, penitence	Blidstein, Purity Community and Ritual in Early Christian Literature (2017) 80
philanthropy	Pevarello, The Sentences of Sextus and the Origins of Christian Ascetiscism (2013) 181
philistines, philosophy, christianity as	Lieu, Christian Identity in the Jewish and Graeco-Roman World (2004) 133
philosophy	Blidstein, Purity Community and Ritual in Early Christian Literature (2017) 80
plato	Damm, Religions and Education in Antiquity (2018) 22
purity	Pevarello, The Sentences of Sextus and the Origins of Christian Ascetiscism (2013) 198
pythagoreans	Pevarello, The Sentences of Sextus and the Origins of Christian Ascetiscism (2013) 198
religion, education and	Damm, Religions and Education in Antiquity (2018) 22, 23
renunciation	Pevarello, The Sentences of Sextus and the Origins of Christian Ascetiscism (2013) 198
resurrection	Iricinschi et al., Beyond the Gnostic Gospels: Studies Building on the Work of Elaine Pagels (2013) 273
ritual	Vinzent, Christ's Resurrection in Early Christianity and the Making of the New Testament (2013) 200
sabbath	Lieu, Christian Identity in the Jewish and Graeco-Roman World (2004) 133; Vinzent, Christ's Resurrection in Early Christianity and the Making of the New Testament (2013) 200
sabbath observance	Piovanelli, Burke, Pettipiece, Rediscovering the Apocryphal Continent: New Perspectives on Early Christian and Late Antique Apocryphal Textsand Traditions. De Gruyter: 2015 (2015) 141
sacrifice	Vinzent, Christ's Resurrection in Early Christianity and the Making of the New Testament (2013) 200
sexual desire	Pevarello, The Sentences of Sextus and the Origins of Christian Ascetiscism (2013) 198
sexual immorality	Lieu, Christian Identity in the Jewish and Graeco-Roman World (2004) 133
solitude	Pevarello, The Sentences of Sextus and the Origins of Christian Ascetiscism (2013) 181
sunday	Vinzent, Christ's Resurrection in Early Christianity and the Making of the New Testament (2013) 200
symbol and symbolic interpretation	Blidstein, Purity Community and Ritual in Early Christian Literature (2017) 80
teachers, christian	Damm, Religions and Education in Antiquity (2018) 22
techne (craft)	Damm, Religions and Education in Antiquity (2018) 22
thecla	Pevarello, The Sentences of Sextus and the Origins of Christian Ascetiscism (2013) 181
thomas, gospel of, manuscripts of	Iricinschi et al., Beyond the Gnostic Gospels: Studies Building on the Work of Elaine Pagels (2013) 273
thomas, gospel of	Iricinschi et al., Beyond the Gnostic Gospels: Studies Building on the Work of Elaine Pagels (2013) 273
thomas (also, gospel of)	Roukema, Jesus, Gnosis and Dogma (2010) 71, 78, 79
translation, errors	Damm, Religions and Education in Antiquity (2018) 180
translation, obscurities	Damm, Religions and Education in Antiquity (2018) 180
translation, omissions'	Damm, Religions and Education in Antiquity (2018) 189
translation, omissions	Damm, Religions and Education in Antiquity (2018) 180
translation	Damm, Religions and Education in Antiquity (2018) 180, 189
valentinus, valentinianism	Piovanelli, Burke, Pettipiece, Rediscovering the Apocryphal Continent: New Perspectives on Early Christian and Late Antique Apocryphal Textsand Traditions. De Gruyter: 2015 (2015) 141
vegetarianism	Blidstein, Purity Community and Ritual in Early Christian Literature (2017) 80
wealth	Pevarello, The Sentences of Sextus and the Origins of Christian Ascetiscism (2013) 181
wine	Blidstein, Purity Community and Ritual in Early Christian Literature (2017) 80