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M AT E R I A LS FO R T H E ST U DY O F T H E A PO STO L I C G N O S I S R T I PA . CON TAININ G R A AN D A O O A P E F CE , P L GI INT RO D UCTI O N H I STO R ICA L A RTICLE H A F S O H N BA ST T E N MING O T . j PTI T H E NA ME “ I HEOYE XPI ETOE A A B H R S S . A H T E P LE IN T M TT EW XI I I . T H OMAS S I M OX L EA C , D . D . V F ST ICAR O . AUSTELL A N D F E D E I K B L I G H BO N D F I R R C , R B . A . “ AUT HO R O F T H E GAT E O F REM EM BRANCE O XFO R D B . B A W B H . L CK E LL , ROA D STR E ET I 9 1 9 FU R T H E R C H AP T E RS (IN P REPAR AT I ON) E C SY B E S S I . THE MATH MATI AL M OLISM OF TH GNO I . “ ' ” ll l l l KOKKOZ I IN AI I EQZ . THE G N OST IC “ G HZA‘I'POX S THE TAR O F BET H LEHEM . 2 . T H E S ER SE E E WORD OF POW U D WITH TH MIRAC L S . T H E I S R E E R C 3 V SION OF T . PETE AND THE G OM T I AL Y B U C S M OL OF THE CH R H . T H E . EP P E 4 ISTLE OF A OLLOS) TO TH H E BR Ews . THE SA BEAT H . NCT Y THE SA UAR . - TETPA XHAI ZMENA . MEAXIZEA EK . N E U EX P ES S R P RE . 5 . MISC ELLA O S AM L FROM H OLY C I TU V F T E S THE I SIO N O H SHEP HERD . t v ou fl y Ké wv p xfi y p . m IAM QEOTO KOE MHTHP TOT 3 0 m } . THE FIELD OF BLO OD . THE JO URNEY To EM M AU S . TC ETC ET E " ” c. 2 09 75 3 5 CO NTENTS C H APT E R P AG E ’ R A P O LO G I D . LEA S A P REFAC E I N TRO D UCTI ON F E K P I . T H E GEMATRI A O T H G REE S CR I T U RES A H I STO R I CAL S KETCH T H E N G O F . OH N B P I I . NAM I ST J A TI ST T H E O F 2 I I I . GEMATRI A 368 PE N F F O . H EW I V . S CI ME S O GEMATRI A R M ST MATT L E ’ P L D R . A S A O O G I A I N this w o rk are presented a very large number of quite indisputable facts illustrative in the first instance o f a parallelism of meaning and o f numerical values in the equivalent of the “ letters constituting words and phrases employed in the Greek text of Scripture and - other writings of the apostolic or sub apostolic period . The problem to be solved is first whether the facts are relevant to any principle of importance in the teachings o f and interpretation Scripture , and second , the question to what they actually do refer . We know of course that the G reek alphabet was used to express numerals , and that the numeral values of the letters were and are as follows A a . I 1 6 . I O B K B . 2 it 2 0 P ' A h . y . g 30 M A S J. 0 . 4 / 4 E 6 N 0 . 5 u 5 Z § . 7 7 H ) . 8 su m o r It is plainly possible to , add up , the letters o f an word . y _ or sentence , and to record the result But that the su m of the letters could have any possible reference to the literary sense o f the word o r sentence would seem an insane proposition were it not that there ' 8 The A ostolic noszs p G . is abundant evidence in the case o f more than one h so language t at it was thought , and indeed so intended of deliberate purpose . It is moreover impossible to conceive that a purpose o r plan which involved the moulding and literary shaping of writi ngs deemed sacred could in itself h aVe been a light or casual one , or conceived with any but the most serious o f motives . To deny this would be e quivalent to a denial of the high estimate of the value of such writings in the minds o f their sponsors . Gospel narra and tive , parable sermon , prophecy and apocalyptic , all are involved in this . Therefore it will be submitted that the purpose of lan w as this p a very high one , of enormous import to . the world , and that it must be one capable of being disclosed to human intellect from a study Of the writings in this light by the use of the ordinary logical faculties o f E is mankind . xcept to those faculties no appeal made . But if anyone asks the question What ’ s in a name ? ” and tries to get an answer from what is shown concerning the greatest of all Names , he will find great store of mystery in some five hundred undeniable facts herein recorded . This is the Apologia of a clergyman and a naturalist . It is made in face of continual warnings that Specimens — will not be looked at by theologians , warnings that he H i cannot bring himself to heed . s memory goes back to a lovely springtime among the hills of California e nth u sias where specimen after specimen , eagerly and o o f its tically studied , sp ke to him relevancy to some vast unknown truth concerning the past . Moth by moth : plant by plant : that countryside said to him Learn ! Why is it that we are so like those others and of our own genera and orders that you know, yet ’ D r L ea s A olo ia. p g 9 different in species and so much more numerous ? A nd ’ are no t all o u r names known and recorded in the world s ” — lists ? Fo r thus men learn ! for theories may be An . d wrong, but specimens are facts from facts all knowledge comes . o n Later , return from a more inaccessible spot , with o f a load unrecorded Specimens , a kindly hint was given that there was no need to fear to speculate or to theorise . Theory is but a way of grouping specimens , holding good A n provisionally only until a better way is found . d to e fo r the better may succeed another yet more perf ct , who at o u r present state o f knowledge or mental attainment shall reach ultimate truth ? The dominating idea o f the present work is therefore that by a careful study o f a sufficiently large number o f o f of Specimens , that is , instances correspondence between number and significance o f words and phrases o r sentences , a hypothesis may be framed and gradually verified . What seems to be in sight is a mathematical sym o f holism for the mysteries the Faith , pointing to a mathematical concept underlying them and ultimately to a mathematical “ locus ” for the miraculous element they contain . The part taken in this research by the present writer has been mostly the sending of pioneer specimens to his - collaborator . Such is the duty of the fi e ld naturalist . Such is his share in the work . P RE FAC E I T may be allowable to give a short account of the i * origin of this work and of the book which preceded t . I n 1 91 3 there appeared Foundations with its state ment that the empty tomb and the series of appearances — — the sign which satisfied the apostles can , in the nature ” o f c o vi c i u s the case , be no n n ng Sign to , and further , that Christian theology will never be more than an f ine fective, purely defensive apologetic until it has squarely and fairly faced this fact One might wish that writers would use the word fact in its proper sense of Indefeasible Particular . It is at least a verifiable fact that the two sentences quoted occur in Foundations But beyond that there is very little fact about them . Many good Christian ministers deeply resented the statement they contain , and appealed with no very satisfactory result to a somewhat lethargic se t hi episcopate . But one minister at least s face squarely and candidly against it , determined to meet it with a flat denial . Were such a statement left unchallenged it could only mean that faith and knowledge must needs be dying , if not already dead . 1 In 9 1 4 Dr . Lea first gave expression to an opinion he had long entertained to the effect that there was evidence ‘ A Pre liminary In ve stigation of th e Cabala contained in th e Coptic Gnostic Book s and OI a similar Ge matria in th e G re ek Te xt of th e N e w ’ Te ta e t.

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