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Clement of Alexandria quotes the Gospel of the Egyptians, where Jesus tells Salome to trample on the robe of shame. The Gospel of Thomas has Jesus tell his disciples to strip without shame and trample their garments like little children.
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2500 BCE
1000+ CE
Gospel of Thomas 1:37
Nag Hammadi
36 Jesus said, “Do not be anxious from morning to evening and from evening to morning about what you will wear.” 37 His disciples said, “When will you become revealed to us, and when shall we see you?” Jesus said, “When you strip without being ashamed, and you take your garments and place them under your feet like little children and trample them, then you will see the Son of the Living One, and you will not be afraid.” 38 Jesus said, “Many times you have desired to hear these sayings that I am speaking to you, and you have no one else from whom to hear them. There will be days when you will seek me and will not find me.”
Clement of Alexandria, Stromata 3.13.5
Early Christian
But he departed from the school of Valentine. On this account he says: "When Salome ' asked when she would know the answer to her questions, the Lord said, When you trample on the robe of shame, and when the two shall be one, and the male with the female, and there is neither male nor female." In the first place we have not got the saying in the four Gospels that have been handed down to us, but in the Gospel according to the Egyptians. Secondly Cassia seems to me not to know that it refers to wrath in speaking of and to desire in speaking of the female.
Date: 195 C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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“... The thirty-seventh Coptic saying is an almost exact reproduction of the Greek text, in so far as the latter is preserved. 'His disciples said, "On what day will you reveal yourself to us and on what day shall we see you?" Jesus said, "When (hotan) you take off your clothes (and) are not ashamed, and take your tunics and lay them under your feet like little children and tread upon them, then (tote) [you will become] sons of the Living One and you will not fear'" (87:27-34; 88:1-2). [...] 'His disciples say to him, "When will you be revealed to us and when shall we see you?" He says, "When you take off your clothes and are not ashamed, and take your tunics and put them under your feet like little children and tread upon them, then you will see the Son of the Living One and you will not fear."' [...] v. patesete: Clement of Alexandria (Stromata 3, 13, 92; GCS 15, 238) has preserved a quotation from the Gospel according to the Egyptians, which has a very similar statement ascribed to Jesus, 'To Salome's question, when the things about which he was speaking will be known, the Lord said, "When you tread upon the garment of shame, and when the two become one and the male (will be) with the female, neither male nor female.'" See the discussion in Resch, Agrapha, pp. 252-4. ...”
Fitzmyer, Joseph A.
Essays on the Semitic Background of the New Testament
(pp. 409-410) Scholars Press, 1971
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