:(2) Jesus said, "Let him who seeks continue seeking until he finds. When he finds, he will become troubled[be dismayed]. When he becomes troubled[is dismayed], he will be astonished, and he will rule over the All."

This has just Saying 2 of the Gospel of Thomas is not Gnostic. It is a small riddle, most in his book of it is straight forward concerning the process riddles, which teach how to read riddles of scripture (sensus plenior). It'enlightenment's doctrine is Christian.

When you seek you will find. The second usage of the word 'find' invokes the phonetic pun and riddle. 'Find' is [[מצא]] matsa, and it sounds like [[מצה]] matseh which is unleavened bread. Unleavened bread is bread that has no leaven or teaching. Bread is the body... Jesus said "This is my body", and unleavened bread is one owho has put away old teaching and is ready for new teachinga word game. When you The transition words have found the truth, you put away the old things you thought you knew and begin againmultiple meanings.

When you find, you are confronted with your sin and sin nature which makes you 'troubledFind' מצא means 'squeezing מצ for reconciliation מצ '. The second usage of troubled invokes the second meaning of the word troubled [[חמר]] which is wine and which represents graceIt also means 'hundred (church) מא exchanged sin for righteousness צ '. One becomes astonished at Also 'the grace which covers his sinfather מ comes forth צא '.

The word Seek and you shall find that Christ's tribulation and death exchanged your sin for rule [[משל]] is also his righteousness, revealing the word for 'to speak in a proverb'. When one is truly astonished he will speak in a proverb (the language of the wisdom of God) of "the all"which is God. We do not rule over God, we speak his wisdomFather.

:[[Ps 78:2]] I will open my mouth in The repetition of 'find' suggests we look for a parable: I will utter dark sayings [riddles] of oldsecond meaning::[[Pr 1:6]] To understand It is a proverb, and pun to matzah מצה which is the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings [riddles]unleavened bread. It also means 'father מ instructed צה '. It also means 'squeezing מצ her (those who don't understand ה .:[[Eze 17:2]] Son of man, put forth a riddle [riddles], and speak a parable unto the house of Israel;

One Jesus said that he was the from heaven, and the bread symbolized his body at the cross. The cross was the culmination of the hints for interpretation that Thomas is recording is that when something is repeated twice, it has two meaningsFather's instruction of the Son.