Sunday, June 7, 2009

Was 'Pantaenus' a reference to the Secret Gospel of Mark?

I know that everyone out there thinks that everything that could be written about the Secret Gospel of Mark has already been written. However let me assure my readers that, having spoken and corresponded many times with Scott Brown, Birger Pearson, Charlie Hedrick and many others - these people are really stupid. I shouldn't say stupid. They obviously have studied a great deal. They retain a level of expertise in ancient languages and the various recensions of the four canonical gospels and its relationship to the 'secret gospel' mentioned in To Theodore which is unrivaled.

But so what!

These men can't think out of the box if their lives counted on it. I should liken them to a car which can only drive in one direction. In other words, if you live at the end of a street they could take you anywhere on that street as long as it sat on a straight line.

The point is that they can't think in other direction. The one question which dominates all discussions (other than the 'Morton Smith was a fag' subtext to all the writings of Jeffreys and Carlson) is how Markan is the Secret Gospel of Mark.

So when it now becomes revealed that the figure of pant ainon might well have been a thing rather than a person, the most likely candidate is that Eusebius is presenting us with a garbled allusion to the Secret Gospel of Mark.

In other words, Clement was instructed by something that was or had pant ainon (i.e. 'all the sayings') of the gospel sounds like a gospel harmony text The same inference can be drawn by the Sicilian Bee reference at the beginning of Stromata Book 1 which is usually connected with pant ainon.

These guys are so stupid it's embarrassing ...


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