Jesus said: He who does not hate his father and his mother cannot be a disciple to me. And (he who does not) hate his brothers and sisters and take up his cross like me, will not be worthy of me.
Observe the logic:
1) this cross is metaphorical;
2) this cross is the direct consequence of the separation from a previous condition of apparent goodness and welfare ('his father and his mother').
Compare the same idea with the Hymn to Philippians:
- there also Jesus has to give up to the his original divine pre-existence: he had to hate it if he wanted that it was not considered as an usurpation.
- The kenosis process is a yoke that has to be carried, just as the cross is a yoke in the logion 55 of the Gospel of Thomas.
What makes the connection between the hymn to Philippians and a context where the son hates the father is the following study by Detering who takes again the hypothesis raised by Jean Magne: the Philippians Hymn is based on the Gnostic myth about Sabaoth hating his own father Yaldabaoth and undergoing a his own process of kenosis as result: the his own cross.
Statistics: Posted by Giuseppe — Wed Jul 24, 2024 6:21 am