“... 76.3 As for you, seek his unfailing and enduring treasure. The antecedent of ‘his’ can easily be taken as the Father in 76.1 (not the merchant). This statement has a complicated tradition history (cf. esp. Matt. 6.19–20; Lk. 12.33). Its sense is clear enough, however. 76.3 Where no moth comes near to eat and no worm destroys. The pair ‘moth’ and ‘worm’ is unparalleled in the Synoptics, but appears in what looks like an interpretation of this saying in Gos. Truth 32,31–33,32, which begins with reference to the light ‘which does not fail’ [...] and instructs the disciple, ‘Do not be moths. Do not be worms’ (33,16–17). The association of moths and worms in the parable therefore looks like a second-century variant. ...”