Gospel of Thomas · 72 of 114 · tr. Thomas O. Lambdin
Logion 72
A man said to him, "Tell my brothers to divide my father's possessions with me." He said to him, "O man, who has made me a divider?" He turned to his disciples and said to them, "I am not a divider, am I?"
Themes
◆Renunciation Of Wealthethics
The spiritual danger of attachment to material possessions; wealth as a spiritual obstacle.
The passage explicitly centers on a request to divide material possessions which Jesus refuses, clearly signaling that worldly wealth and inheritance are not his spiritual concern.
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