The Gospel according to the Egyptians (Fragments)

A lost gospel, probably written in Egypt in the 2nd century AD (Clement of Alexandria knew it about AD 200, and Origen names it among the gospels written 'rashly'); author unknown. What survives is a short dialogue between the Lord and Salome about death, childbearing and the end, quoted by Clement in his Stromateis and Excerpts from Theodotus while he argues against teachers who used it to reject marriage. Its saying about 'the two' becoming one and the male with the female neither male nor female is also found, in a different form, in 2 Clement 12:2 and the Gospel of Thomas. Not the same book as the Coptic 'Gospel of the Egyptians' found at Nag Hammadi, which is a different, Sethian Gnostic text. This is M. R. James's translation (1924); only the quotations are given, each verse the sentence of Clement that carries one, with his own comments cut and marked '…'. James's introductions and the church writers who only name the book are not reproduced. Not part of any church's canon.