"In saying 51 his students ask when the rest for the dead and new world will come, and the response is this has already happened but they don't realize it."
There are few, far too few, accurate translations of Thomas around and those by the usual suspects certainly don't qualify.
they said to him, viz. his Disciples: what day will the Repose come to be of they who are dead, and what day is the new World coming? he said to them:
that one that you look outward toward, she came: Rather, you yourselves do not know her
A transliteration from the Coptic, only a little distance from the word-for-word.
"She came" is indeed what the text... (read more)
"In saying 51 his students ask when the rest for the dead and new world will come, and the response is this has already happened but they don't realize it."
There are few, far too few, accurate translations of Thomas around and those by the usual suspects certainly don't qualify.
A transliteration from the Coptic, only a little distance from the word-for-word. "She came" is indeed what the text... (read more)