Gospel of Thomas · 31 of 114 · tr. Thomas O. Lambdin
Logion 31
Jesus said, "No prophet is accepted in his own village; no physician heals those who know him."
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Paradox As Teachingethics
Using apparent contradiction, reversal, or riddle to destabilise ordinary understanding and induce insight.
The saying employs a counter-intuitive observation about familiarity and acceptance to challenge ordinary social expectations and induce insight.
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The phenomenon where spiritual messengers or healers are rejected by their own community due to familiarity or lack of awe.
The passage explicitly states the central theme that spiritual messengers and healers are rejected by their own communities due to familiarity.
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Shared concept: Paradox As Teaching — Using apparent contradiction, reversal, or riddle to destabilise ordinary understanding and induce insight. (derived)
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“472 Contemplation, Act of Contemplation, and Object Contemplated are all united together, and so imply a fundamental Unity which exists ultimately in God.
473 Cf.
p.
174, n.
3.
474 D.‘s paradox is the paradox of sanity.
We must hold a…”
Shared concept: Paradox As Teaching — Using apparent contradiction, reversal, or riddle to destabilise ordinary understanding and induce insight. (derived)
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Shared concept: Prophetic Rejection — The phenomenon where spiritual messengers or healers are rejected by their own community due to familiarity or lack of awe. (derived)
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“I believe in the ancients and therefore I love them."** (Quoted in "Science of Religions" by Max Muller.) The writer loves them too, and therefore believes in the ancients, and the modern heirs to their Wisdom.
And believing in both, she n…”
Shared concept: Prophetic Rejection — The phenomenon where spiritual messengers or healers are rejected by their own community due to familiarity or lack of awe. (derived)
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“DENTES FURCA AMENS THE AUTHOR of this book has dared many things in his life, and never has fear retained his thought a prisoner.
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It i…”
Shared concept: Prophetic Rejection — The phenomenon where spiritual messengers or healers are rejected by their own community due to familiarity or lack of awe. (derived)
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“But Paracelsus arrived at magnetism long before Mesmer and had carried to its final consequences this luminous discovery, or rather this initiation into the Magic of the ancients, who better than us understood the Great Magical Agent and di…”
Shared concept: Prophetic Rejection — The phenomenon where spiritual messengers or healers are rejected by their own community due to familiarity or lack of awe. (derived)