The Gospel of Thomas = Strom 8
Gthom = Strom 8 I will show that the Gospel of Thomas is the lost eighth book of the Stromata by Cleement of Alexandria, The end of the seventh book sets up an expectation for the lost eighth book. " These points then haven't been formally thoroughly treated, end the department of ethics having been sketched summarily in a fragmentary way as we promised, and having here and there interspersed the dogmas which are the germs of true knowledge, so that the discovery of the Sacred traditions may not be easy to anyone of the uninitiated, let us proceed to what we promised. " now the Miscellanies are not like Parts laid out, planted in regular order for the Delight of the eye, but rather like an umbrageous and Shaggy Hill planted with Laurel and ivy and apples and olives and figs, the planting being purposely a mixture of fruit-bearing and frui...