My LORD’s BibleThe Gospel according to the Egyptians (Fragments) 1
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.
2When she had said, 'I have done well, then, in not bearing children?' … the Lord answers and says: Every plant eat thou, but that which hath bitterness eat not.
3When Salome inquired when the things concerning which she asked should be known, the Lord said: When ye have trampled on the garment of shame, and when the two become one and the male with the female is neither male nor female.
4The Lord said to Salome when she inquired: How long shall death prevail? 'As long as ye women bear children'.
5The Saviour says to Salome that there shall be death as long as women bear children.