Resumen de The Passion of the Book: The Gospel of Truth as Valentinian Scriptural Practice
The Son combats ignorance by revealing the gospel. Because the Son thwarts Error, "Error became angry at him. "64 The book governs this relationship: the "living book of the living appears in their hearts," the book in which their own names had been inscribed.65 This is Jesus's act of revelation: the text claims, "nothing could have appeared among the ones who believed in salvation, if that book had not come into the midst. . Because of this, he took up that book because he knows that his death is life for many. [...]a Roman edict was protected as an Objet de loi-if someone purposefully destroyed or defaced an edict after it was published, the offender was severely fined. [...]the text suggests its own form of imitatio Christi, not through the act of suffering martyrdom, but through the production of revelatory knowledge residing in the heart.
