Talk:Sentences of Sextus

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I think its inaccurate to label this New Testament Apocrypha. Yes, it was found in the Nag Hammadi texts, and it was cited by Church Fathers... but its a non-Christian text and being in the NHL doesn't make it Gnostic any more than Plato's cave parable being in the NHL makes Plato a Gnostic. Its rather a text popular in the wider culture of the time, and used by non-Christians as well as Christians and Gnostics. I think that disqualifies it as being New Testament Apocrypha. Also, this article needs to mention all the various copies of Sextus known before the Nag Hammadi version was found. It had been known before from versions in many languages, Syriac, Armenian, Latin, and its original Greek. Murple 06:03, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

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