Talk:Gospel of Matthias

Nicolaiatans and the Gospel of Matthias

Clement of Alexandria does not say that it's the Nicolaiatans who ascribe this saying to Matthaias. Here is Clement's passage from Stromata III.4:

• We also mentioned the blasphemous immorality of Carpocrates. But when we spoke about the saying of Nicolaus we omitted to say this. Nicolaus, they say, had a lovely wife. When after the Saviour's ascension he was accused before the apostles of jealousy, he brought his wife into the concourse and allowed anyone who so desired to marry her. For, they say, this action was appropriate to the saying: "One must abuse the flesh." Those who share his heresy follow both his action and his words simply and without qualification by indulging in the gravest enormity.
• 26. I am informed, however, that Nicolaus never had relations with any woman other than the wife he married, and that of his children his daughters remained virgins to their old age, and his son remained uncorrupted. In view of this it was an act of suppression of passion when he brought before the apostles the wife on whose account he was jealous. He taught what it meant to "abuse the flesh" by restraining the distracting passions. For, as the Lord commanded, he did not wish to serve two masters, pleasure and God. It is said that Matthias also taught that one should fight the flesh and abuse it, never allowing it to give way to licentious pleasure, so that the soul might grow by faith and knowledge.

Rakovsky (talk) 15:36, 9 February 2019 (UTC)

I learn that Matthais was a great man of GOD. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.191.104.237 (talk) 17:38, 27 November 2021 (UTC)