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The Second Treatise of the Great Seth is a Gnostic text in which the Christ figure speaks in the first person, explaining the true nature of his crucifixion — that he did not suffer, as another being was crucified in his place. The text is a sustained argument for a docetic Christology.
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- Found in Nag Hammadi Codex VII
- Christ narrates: "It was another... who drank the gall and the vinegar; it was not I"
- A detailed Docetic text — arguing Christ only appeared to suffer on the cross
- Critiques both Jewish religion and orthodox Christianity as serving the Archons