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The '''Sentences of Sextus''' is a [[Hellenistic period|Hellenistic]] [[Pythagoreanism|Pythagorean]] text which was also popular among [[Christians]]. The earliest mention of the ''Sentences'' is in the mid 3rd century by [[Origen]].<ref>Origen, ''Contra Celsum'', viii. 30; ''Commentary on Matthew'', xv. 3</ref> Origen quotes Sextus on self-castration, a widespread habit among ascetic early Christians, which Origen deplores, and mentions in passing that the work is one "that many considered to be tested by time."<ref>Origen, [http://www.well.com/~aquarius/origen-matthew.htm ''Commentary on Matthew'']], xv. 3</ref> While previously known from other versions, a partial [[Coptic language|Coptic]] translation appears in one of the books of the [[New Testament apocrypha]] recovered in the [[Nag Hammadi library]]. |
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==Contents== |
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The work is similar to the [[New Testament apocrypha|sayings gospels]] [[Gospel of Phillip]] and [[Gospel of Thomas]] in that it is purely a collection of sayings, with no bridging framework. Unlike the Christian sayings gospels, the wisdom comes from a man named ''Sextus'' rather than Jesus. Sextus appears to have been a [[Pythagoreanism|Pythagorean]]. Some of the 104 sentences are |
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*''The soul is illuminated by the recollection of deity'' |
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*''Bear that which is necessary, as it is necessary'' |
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*''Be not anxious to please the multitude'' |
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*''Esteem nothing so precious, which a bad man may take from you'' |
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*''Use lying like poison'' |
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*''Nothing is so peculiar to wisdom, as truth'' |
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*''Wish that you may be able to benefit your enemies'' |
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*''A wise intellect is the mirror of God'' |
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*''Cast away any part of the body that would cause you not to live abstinently. For it is better to live abstinently without this part than ruinously with it.'' (quoted by [[Origen]]) |
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==Authorship== |
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One possible author of the ''Sentences'' is [[Quintus Sextius]], a Roman philosopher who combined [[Stoicism]] with [[Pythagoreanism]], and who lived in the 1st century BC.<ref>Richard M. Gummere, (1917), ''Seneca, Epistles 1-65'', page 412. Loeb Classical Library.</ref> By the time that [[Tyrannius Rufinus|Rufinus]] translated the ''Sentences'' into [[Latin]] (c. 400), the work had become attributed to [[Pope]] [[Sixtus II]],<ref>Martha Lee Turner, (1996) "The Sentences of Sextus and Related Collections" in ''The Gospel according to Philip'', page 104. BRILL.</ref> in early times one of the most venerated of all church figures. It is unlikely that he authored the text (partly as he wasn't Pythagorean). Such attribution to important figures, which frequently happened in the apocrypha, was usually an attempt to give them more authority. |
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==Notes== |
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==See also== |
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*[[Nag Hammadi library]] |
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*[[Gospel of Thomas]] |
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*[[Gospel of Philip]] |
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*[[Diatessaron]] |
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==External links== |
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* [http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/gvp/gvp09.htm The Sentences of Sextus at Sacred Texts] |
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* [http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/sent.html The Sentences of Sextus] at gnosis.org |
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[[Category:Apocryphal collections of logia|Sextus]] |
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[[Category:Pythagorean philosophy]] |
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[[es:Sentencias de Sexto]] |
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[[pt:Sentenças de Sexto]] |
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[[fi:Sekstoksen lauseet]] |
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