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First published in 1978, The Nag Hammadi Library was widely acclaimed by critics and scholars alike. Containing many of the writings of the Gnostics since the time of Christ, this was the work that launched modern Gnostic studies. Although some of the texts had appeared in other translations, the 1978 edition was the first and only translation of these ancient and fascinating manuscripts to...

numbers are given for II, 1, except where IV, 1 preserved text which was omitted in II, 1 through scribal error. II 1, 1–32, 9=IV 1, 1–49, 28 | The teaching [of the savior], and [the revelation] | of the mysteries, [and the] things hidden in | silence, [even these things which] he taught | John, [his] disciple. 5 [And] it happened one [day], when | John, [the brother] of James |—who are the sons of Zebedee—had come up to | the temple, that a Pharisee | named Arimanius approached
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