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Besides these things, they bring in an untold multitude of apocryphal and spurious writings, which they themselves forged, for the astonishment of the foolish and of those who do not understand the letters of the truth. And for this purpose they take up also that piece of trickery: that when the Lord was a child and was learning the alphabet, and his teacher said to him, as is customary, "Say alpha," he answered "alpha"; but again, when the teacher bade him say "beta," the Lord answered, "You first tell me what alpha is, and then I will tell you what beta is." And this they expound as though he alone understood the unknown, which he revealed in the place of the alpha.
Some of the things also that lie in the Gospel they refashion to this same character: as his answer to his mother when he was twelve years old, "Do you not know that I must be about my Father's business?"—they say he was announcing to them a Father whom they did not know; and that for this reason he sent forth the disciples to the twelve tribes, proclaiming to them the unknown God. And to him who said, "Good Teacher," they say he confessed the truly good God when he said, "Why do you call me good? There is one who is good, the Father in the heavens." And by "heavens" here, they say, the Aeons are meant. And by his not answering those who said to him, "By what power do you do this?" but reducing them to perplexity by a counter-question, they explain that he showed forth the ineffability of the Father by not speaking. Moreover, in his saying, "Often have I desired to hear one of these words, and I had no one to tell it to me," they say he was indicating that, through the "one," there must be the truly one God, whom they had not known. Further, in his drawing near to Jerusalem and weeping over it, and saying, "If you too had known, even this day, the things that make for peace—but it is hidden from you"—by the word "hidden" he made plain the hiddenness of Bythos. And again, in saying, "Come to me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest; and learn from me," he announced the Father of truth. "For what they did not know," he says, "this he promised to teach them." And as a proof, and as it were the crowning point of their hypothesis, they bring forward these words: "I confess to you, Father, Lord of the heavens and of the earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and prudent, and have revealed them to babes. Yes, my Father, for so it was well-pleasing before you. All things have been delivered to me by my Father; and no one knew the Father except the Son, and the Son except the Father, and he to whom the Son may reveal him." In these words, they say, he showed expressly that the Father of truth, whom they themselves have invented, was known to no one whatever before his coming; and they wish to establish that the Maker and Creator was always known by all. And these things, they say, the Lord spoke concerning the Father who is unknown to all—whom they themselves proclaim.