Abstract
3. If it should prove to be an unknown Gnostic homily and not the Valentinian document is it merely accidental that it begins 'The Gospel of Truth is joy/for those...' 3 Did the author intend this to be a title, or if it is not the title, have the words any special meaning in the writer's terminology? The acquisition of this treatise (with three other MSS) in a Codex forming one of those which had come from the Gnostic library at Chenoboskion was announced by Quispel 4 in 1953, and he identifies it with the Veritatis Evangelium mentioned by Irenaeus. It has been known as the 'Gospel of Truth' since them. This identification would immediately suggest itself to anyone from the first page. Here we have several Valentinian terms 5 and the opening words 'The Gospel of Truth ...' would remind the reader of the passage in Irenaeus. Now Doresse has given us such a full account of the appearance and examination of the manuscripts 6 in Cairo we can
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