Logion 37

37. His disciples said, “When wilt thou be revealed unto us and when shall we see thee?”
Jesus said, “When ye disrobe and are not ashamed and when ye take up your garments and cast them upon the ground beneath your feet as little children and tread upon them with your feet, then shall ye see the son of him who liveth and ye shall not fear.”

The Greek merges this with the former logion, but its ideas go much deeper. Jesus seems to be identifying himself as the God of Last Judgement, when each person accounts for his deeds of life. The admonishion is to live a life that can be displayed without fear in that day and without embarrassment will prove your childlike innocence. In this life the soul keeps a very personal existence with minimal outward expression of inner states, but in that day all such privacy as bodily existence makes possible is shed.

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