It is clear fromOrigen's wording that he is not referring to alogion of the originalMontanist leaders, but to a statement made by later adherents of the New Prophecy.[…] Thelogion is probably authentic.
Influenced by scholarship on the sayings of Jesus and the redaction of the Gospels,[John] Wansbrough assumes that the Qu'rān was edited and constructed from a plethora of short texts that he terms "propheticlogia." Theselogia draw on monotheistic imagery and are related to forms familiar from the literature of prophetical expression.[…] The goal of the critic is to identify theselogia by examining the canonical text in which they have been edited and spliced together
The Gospels are evidently independent in their use of their source in theLogia of Matthew; but they all give thelogion the same place in their Gospels.
It is in this context that the difficultlogion in Matthew concerning the eye (vv. 22–23) is to be understood.
2011, Samuel Zinner, “TheGospel of Thomas: A Contextual Commentary”, inThe Gospel of Thomas: In the Light of Early Jewish, Christian and Islamic Esoteric Trajectories: With a Contextualized Commentary and a New Translation of the Thomas Gospel (Matheson Monographs), London:The Matheson Trust for the Study of Comparative Religion,→ISBN,page261:
The central key to unraveling the perplexities of theThomas gospel is contained basically in the first threelogia. According tologion 1, which is actually a statement by the apostle Thomas, not by Jesus, the one who finds the interpretation or meaning of Jesus' secret sayings will not taste of death.
