:(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.(1) 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 '.

Seek and you shall find that Christ's tribulation and death exchanged your sin for his righteousness, revealing the Father. The word repetition of 'find' suggests we look for rule [[משל]] a second meaning: It is a pun to matzah מצה which is the unleavened bread. It also the word for means 'to speak in a proverbfather מ instructed צה '.It also means 'squeezing מצ her (2) When one is truly astonished those who don't understand ה . Jesus said that he will speak in a proverb (was the from heaven, and the bread symbolized his body at the cross. The cross was the language culmination of the wisdom Father's instruction of God) of "the all"which is GodSon.  Heb 5:8 We do not rule over GodThough he were a Son, we speak his wisdom.yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered; <blockquote style= "border: solid thin gray;When he finds he will become troubled">. You are confronted with your sin. :[[Ps 78:2]] The second usage of 'troubled' suggests a second meaning. 'Troubled' חמר also means 'clay. I will open my mouth Clay is the earth man came from, you are exposed for being what your nature is.  The doubling of 'dismay' suggests we look deeper. 'Troubled' also means 'wine'. Wine is symbol for grace. There is dismay as you see the grace poured out on you even in a parable: I will utter dark sayings [riddles] the revelation of old:your sin.  :[[Pr 1:6]] To understand a proverbAs you have received grace, and now you 'rule the interpretation; All'. Naturally we cannot rule over God. So this is an obvious riddle after so many plays on words.  'Rule' משל also means 'parable' or 'proverb'. When you have received the words grace of God now you can speak and understand the wise, parables and their dark sayings [riddles]proverbs of God; just as Thomas is doing.:[[Eze 17Pr 25:2]] Son of man, put forth a riddle [riddlesIt is], and speak the glory of God to conceal a parable unto thing: but the house honour of Israel;</blockquote>One of the hints for interpretation that Thomas kings [is recording is that when something is repeated twice, it has two meanings----] to search out a matter.