“... In any discussion of apparent citations by the author of 2 Clement of materials in other gospels, we should also mention the case of 2 Clem. 12. 2, where again ‘Clement’ cites a saying of ‘the Lord’. Here, when asked when his kingdom is coming, the Lord ‘said’ [...]: ‘When the two shall be one, and the outside as the inside, and the male with the female neither male not female . . . then the kingdom of my father will come’ (2 Clem. 12. 2, 6). A very similar form of this saying in found in at least two other places. In the Gospel of Thomas, 22, there is another version of what appears to be the same basic saying: ‘Jesus said to them, when you make the two one, and when you make the inside like the outside and the outside like the inside, and the above like the below, and when you make the male and the female one and the same, so the male not be male nor the female female . . . then you will enter [the kingdom]’. And Clement of Alexandria cites a saying as from the Gospel of the Egyptians in similar vein: in a response to an enquiry by Salome, ‘The Lord said, when you tread upon the garment of shame, and when the two become one, and when the male with the female is neither male nor female . . .’) (Strom. 3. 13. 92). Although the three versions are not identical, they are close enough to be recognizably variants of the same basic saying. The situation regarding the relationship between the three versions is extremely complex. For present purposes, however, we may leave this example on one side, for it is clear that there is no real synoptic parallel to the substance of the saying. ...”