⛪✝️[Pawan Upadhyay Bible] Gentiles, Hebrews, and Christians [Gospel of Phillip, Chapter 1]⛪✝️
⛪✝️[Pawan Upadhyay Bible] Gentiles, Hebrews, and Christians [Gospel of Phillip, Chapter 1]⛪✝️
Special Notes :- A Hebrew creates a Hebrew, and [those] of this kind are called a proselyte. But a [proselyte] doesn't create (another) proselyte.
They’re like some who both exist just as they are and make others like themselves, and they create others while others simply exist—it’s good enough for them that they come into being.
Gentiles, Hebrews, and Christians – Expanded with Context
A Hebrew creates another Hebrew, and those who come into being in this way are called proselytes (converts to Judaism). But a proselyte—someone who is born not from lineage but from conversion—does not produce another proselyte. They’re like copies or reflections: they are made in the image of the original, but they lack the capacity to reproduce in the same way. They create others only in appearance or form, not in essence or spirit. For such people, just existing or being “converted” is enough—they do not pass on spiritual life in the same generative way.
This illustrates the idea that only those truly born into the faith or truth can generate others like themselves. A proselyte represents a kind of imitation or secondary creation that lacks the power to create more life.
The next section deepens the contrast between different kinds of inheritance and life:
The slave seeks only freedom—they long to escape servitude but do not seek to inherit or take possession of their master’s estate. They don’t act as sons, but as outsiders. In contrast, the son claims not only freedom, but his father’s inheritance—he takes ownership of the legacy and the household.
In spiritual terms, those who inherit from the dead (meaning religious traditions or rituals that are no longer spiritually alive) are themselves spiritually dead, and thus only inherit more of the same lifelessness. But those who inherit from the living—those connected to divine truth and life—are spiritually alive and receive both living and dead inheritance: they can draw from all sources, but do so with the vitality of true faith.
The dead can’t inherit anything. If someone is spiritually dead, how can they lay claim to eternal life or divine truth? Yet paradoxically, if the dead were to inherit the living, they would be revived—they would not remain dead but become even more alive. This reflects the idea that spiritual transformation is possible even for those who appear cut off.
A gentile (a non-believer or one outside the covenant) doesn't truly “die” in the spiritual sense, because they haven’t lived—they have never experienced spiritual life, so they cannot experience spiritual death. On the other hand, those who have believed in the Truth (Christ) have already entered life, and therefore face the risk of dying—not physically, but spiritually—because they are now truly alive and must walk in truth to remain so.
Since the coming of Christ, those who believe are spiritually alive, and the world has been transformed: new creation has begun, cities have been renewed or gentrified, and the spiritually dead have been expelled or removed.
Finally It says :-
When we were Hebrews, we were fatherless—we had only our mother (referring symbolically to the earthly or material law). But when we became Christians, we gained both father and mother—meaning we entered into the fullness of spiritual parentage: God the Father and the heavenly Church as Mother, completing our identity as children of God.
The Holy Resurrected glorified heavenly body of the Blessed Holy Lord Jesus the Nazarene Christ is the our holy heavenly church. In this holy church, Holy Trinity resides. Holy Spirit resides in this Church.
⛪✝️[Gospel of Phillip]⛪✝️
⛪✝️[Chapter 1]⛪✝️
⛪✝️[Gentiles, Hebrews, and Christians]✝
A Hebrew creates a Hebrew, and [those] of this kind are called a proselyte. But a [proselyte] doesn't create (another) proselyte. They're like [...] and they create others [...] it's good enough for them that they come into being.
The slave seeks only freedom; they don't seek their master's property. But the son isn't just a son; he claims his father's inheritance for himself. Those who inherit the dead are themselves dead, and they inherit the dead. Those who inherit the living are themselves alive, and they inherit (both) the living and the dead. The dead can't inherit anything, because how can the dead inherit? If the dead inherits the living they won't die, but the dead will live even more! A gentile doesn't die, because they've never lived in order that they may die. Whoever has believed in the Truth has lived, and is at risk of dying, because they're alive since the day Christ came. The world is created, the cities gentrified, and the dead carried out.
When we were Hebrews, we were fatherless — we had (only) our mother. But when we became Christians, we gained both father and mother.
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