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It is impossible to end the Blessed News with better words than those with which Matthew ends. Let us also conclude our book about how Jesus the Unknown lived, died and rose again with these words.

behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age. Amen.

Notes

1

Eug. Faye, Gnostiques et Gnosticisme, 1925, p. 531.

2

Lagrange, Evangiles, 1930, p. 39.

3

II Epist., Clement., IV, 5 – W. Bauer, Das Leben Jesu im Zeitalter der N. T. Apokryph, 1909, S. 384.

4

Tertullianus ar. Ot. Pfleiderer, Die Entstehung des Christentums, 1907, S. 247.

5

J. Wellhausen, Das Evangelium Johannis, 1898, S. 3.

6

Pascal, Pensées, 537: «Le Christianisme est étrange».

7

Clement Alex., Strom. II, 9, 45; V, 14, 57 – Resch, Agrapha, S. 70.

8

Pascal, Pensées, 552: «Je pensais à toi dans mon agonie, j'ai vers é telles gouttes de sang pour toi».

9

Pseud.-Cyprian, De duobus montibus, p. 13: "ita me m vobis videte quomodo quis vestrum se videt in aquam aut in speculum."

10

D. Merezhkovsky, The Secret of the West. Atlantis – Europe, 1931, II, Gods of Atlantis, ch. XIII, To Jesus the Unknown, VIII.

11

L. Grandmaison, Jesus Christ, 1930, I, 137.

12

II, I, Esdra, IX: «multitudo quae sine causa nata est».