Over 500000 fragments have been found at the site that this song was found and not all are found. Over 80 large volumes have been published from the oxyrhyncus site.

Egypt is the home of ancient manuscripts that have been found, two major ancient Christian discoveries are the cheniboskion and askewinian codexes aka gnostic manuscripts which have also been found where they found this hymn.

Btw this hym has no biblical basis what so ever yet the narrator of the documentary seems to think the father son and holy spirit is strong evidence for the late Catholic Trinity doctrine while utterly ignoring the rest of the content.

The entire song reads:

. . . Together all the eminent ones of God. . . . . Night nor day ... Let it/them be silent. Let the luminous stars not . . .

. . . Let the rushings of winds, the sources of all surging rivers ...cease...While we hymn Father and Son and Holy Spirit, let all the powers answer, "Amen, amen, Strength, praise, and glory forever to God, the sole giver of all good things. Amen, amen."

As you can read the song has already under gone heavy perversion.

Yet Tomlin and his friends seem to be able to twist this evidently gnostic song into their own corrupted pentecostal framework. The gnostics exemplify the pure state of righteouss silence our father resides in which is a state we ought to seek and clearly dictated in the song, but this sensationalized melody is far from silence rather it is nothing more than turbulent sound pollution and an insult to the ears of mind, heart and soul. The sound of matter, idolised text and a perverted doctrine that reflects anything other than the purity of truth.

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