Most Gnostic groups seem to have been organized as schools, in which the authoritative teaching was transmitted, interpreted, and kept secret. 大多数诺斯替派团体看来都是以学校的形式组织起来,权威的教导被传送,解释和保持秘密。
There is also a very important figure that some people will call Gnostic, but we now tend not to. 还有一个重要人物,有些人喜欢称他为诺斯替教徒,但我们现在不这么叫了。
It's not a church or an institution in the sense that we doubt that you could have walked into say the town of Antioch and looked for the Gnostic church. 它不是一个教会或一个机构,你很可能没法走进,比如安提俄克镇,去找一间诺斯替教堂。
They look Gnostic in some ways, but they don't seem to have a belief in two gods, necessarily, that other Gnostic groups do. 某种程度上,他们看上去很像诺斯替教,但他们并不相信有两个神,不像其他诺斯替教徒。
Some people said that's one of the fundamental things about the Gnostic myths and it's not in the Gospel of Thomas, therefore the Gospel of Thomas is not Gnostic. 有的人说这是诺斯替神话最基本的东西之一,而却没有出现在多马福音中,因此多马福音不是诺斯替的。
Gnostic texts concern the fall of man from the divine to the material world. 诺斯替著作涉及人类从神的国度降落至物质世界。
What's the Gnostic interpretation of that? 怎么用诺斯替来诠释这个?
This idea that you have esoteric knowledge would be called a Gnostic kind of notion. 这种观点是有了这种神秘知识,就能被叫做诺斯替。
The neurological disorders observed were divided, on the basis of clinical manifestations, into three groups, ie, convulsive, gnostic, and comatose. 根据主要临床表现分为3型:抽搐型、智力障碍型和昏迷型。