COMMENTARY ON THE
GOSPEL ACCORDING TO SAINT THOMAS
Logion 76

76. Jesus said, "The Kingdom of the Father is like unto a merchant who had a consignment of merchandise and who discovered a pearl. That merchant was shrewd. He sold the merchandise and bought the pearl alone for himself. Ye too, seek where no moth cometh nigh to devour and no worm destroyeth." Mt 13:45,46
"Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls: Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it."

Mt 6:19,20 (Cf. Lk 12:33
"Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: …"