... exclusively dependent upon the reports of its critics (e.g., Irenaeus, Hippolytus, Tenullian, Origen, Plotinus); but a cache of documents found at Nag Hammadi in Egypt in 1945 has provided originals of some treatises alluded to by those critics and has enabled scholars to see how much more widespread and diverse Gnosticism ... with the resurrected Jesus. Mary stood weeping outside the tomb, and as she wept she stooped to look into the tomb. Mary saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had lain, one at the head and one at the feet. They said to her, " ... , retreat from wo...

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