“... Another set of options argues for an implied object. (4) For Haenchen, for example, the implicit object is the ‘Jahrmarkt der Welt’ (the ‘fair’ of the world, ‘vanity fair’). Similarly, Meyer argues for ‘pass by the world’, that is, ‘renounce the world’. [...] The criticisms made above mean that the interpretations other than that of Haenchen and Meyer are problematic. The view which implies the sense, ‘Pass by the world’, can be supported by various parallels. Plisch has drawn attention to a passage in Philo (Imm. 159), where there is a reference to ‘those who judge it right to pass by earthly things’ (οἱ τὰ γήινα παρέρχεσθαι δικαιοῦντες). These are the people who the addressees are enjoined to be. A connection is often made to the Arabic agraphon in which the world is a bridge to be passed over (though this is perhaps closer to the Dialogue of the Saviour than to Thomas). Thus interpretation (4) is probably to be preferred, but any interpretation of such an elliptical saying will have to be tentative. ...”