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In the Secret Book of John, Jesus says those who blaspheme the Spirit face age-long punishment. The Gospel of Thomas comes right after it in the same Nag Hammadi codex, and there Jesus says such a person is forgiven neither on earth nor in heaven.
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1000+ CE
Gospel of Thomas 1:44
Nag Hammadi
43 His disciples said to him, “Who are you to say these things to us?” “You do not realize who I am from what I say to you. Yet you have become like the Jews: they love the tree but hate its fruit, or they love the fruit but hate the tree.” 44 Jesus said, “Whoever blasphemes against the Father will be forgiven, and whoever blasphemes against the Son will be forgiven, but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, neither on earth nor in heaven.” 45 Jesus said, “Grapes are not harvested from thorn trees, nor are figs gathered from thistles; for they do not produce fruit. Good people bring forth good from their treasure; bad people bring forth evil from their evil treasure in their heart and say evil things. For out of the abundance of the heart they bring forth evil.”
Secret Book of John 18:19
Apocryphon of John
Nag Hammadi
It will not be thrown again into another flesh.” I also asked: “Lord, these who also did know, but who have turned away, where will their souls go?” Then he said to me: “They will be brought to that place where the angels of destitution go, the place with no repentance, and they will be detained for the day when those who have blasphemed the Spirit will be tormented, and they will be punished with an age-long punishment.”
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“... 44.3 But whoever blasphemes the Holy Spirit, he will not be forgiven either on earth or in heaven. This part of the saying, based on Matthew’s version, removes the eschatological element, changing the bifurcation of the ages into an earth/ heaven duality. This part of the saying is employed just prior to Thomas in Nag Hammadi Codex II, near the end of the Apocryphon of John: ‘And they will be kept for the day on which those who have blasphemed the Spirit will be tortured. And they will be punished with an everlasting punishment’ (Ap. John II 27,27–30). ...”
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