". . . as a direct result . . ."

 “. . . as a direct result . . .” 

from Farah See’s commentary on The Gospel of Thomas and Other Sayings of Jesus (in the Incoherent series, published by Rantrage Press, 2012, p. 227) –

In the following pages are sayings falsely attributed to Jesus. He could not have said them, much as someone might have wished he had. I confine myself to sayings attested to in the first half of the fourth century or earlier. Otherwise, to paraphrase the last verse in John’s gospel, the world could not contain all the books I would have to write. 

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This first example is attributed to Jesus by Cyprian of Carthage, according to Pontius the Deacon, who cites a work we no longer have, the Ad Aspasium Apostatam (Against Aspasius the Apostate).¹

Tunc si quis vobis dixerit: protinam sequitur, non credideritis verbis proximis eius.

He said, “If anyone says to you, ‘. . . and as a direct result . . . ,’ do not believe them, what they will say next.

Commentary

Not because they would be lying, Pontius comments, but because they cannot know what they are talking about.

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 ¹ Not to be confused apparently with the proconsul Aspasius Paternus.

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