Apocryphal books (New Testament); Christian heresies -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600; Gnosticism
Said he, Thomas, A man blasphemer continually, what is his punishment?
Said Jesus, This of this kind whenever should his time be completed by
the Sphere, are wont to come after him the Receivers of Ialdabaoth and
bind him with his tongue to a great demon with face of horse, and they
spend three days going about with him in the World and punish him. After
these (things) they are wont to take him [350^b] out unto the place of
the cold with the snow to punish him for eleven years. After these
(things) they are wont to take him down unto the Chaos (close) to
Ialdabaoth with his forty nine demons, that each of the demons may
punish him other eleven years. After these (things) they are wont to
take him out unto the Darkness which is outer, until the day (in) which
they will judge the great Ruler of face of dragon which goeth round the
Darkness, and is wont that soul, she is wont to be numbed and to waste
away and to be dissolved. This is the judgment of the man blasphemer.
Said Bartholomaios, A man who sleeper with male, What is his punishment?
Said he, Jesus: The man sleeping with male with the man who will sleep
with him (there shall be the same measure) [351^a] as the man
blasphemer: whenever the time therefore should be completed by the
Sphere, are wont to come after their souls the Receivers of Ialdabaoth
that he may punish them with his forty nine demons for eleven (added in
margin) years. After these (things) they are wont to take them out unto
rivers of smoke with seas of pitch boiling, full of demons of face of
swine, they are wont to eat in at them and punish them in the rivers of
smoke for other eleven years. After these (things) they are wont to take
them out in the Darkness which is outer, until the day of the judgment
(in) which they will Judge the great Darkness, they are wont to be
dissolved and perish.
Said Thomas, We heard that there are some upon the earth who are wont to
take away the sperma of the males with the menstruum [351^b] of the
woman and give them unto a (mess of) lentil and eat it, while they say,
We are believing Esau with Iakob. Is it a thing which is right or
otherwise? But Jesus was angry with the World at that hour, and said he
to Thomas, Amen I say that every sin and every unlawfulness—this sin
surpasseth them—these of this kind. They are about to take them
immediately unto the Darkness which is outer, nor shall they throw them
back unto the Sphere again. But they are not about to be wasted away and
destroy them in the Darkness which is outer, the place in which there is
not mercy nor is there light, but the weeping is, and the gnashing of
the teeth is (there). And every soul which they will take unto the
Darkness which is outer, they are not wont to throw them back again, but
they are wont to perish and be dissolved.
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