More comment on this saying of Jesus from Gospel of Thomas here follows, because the meaning of the saying hasn't been exhausted. ('Meaning' is a deep lake.)
Taking the saying as a guidepost to right conduct, one is instructed not to get involved with things of this world (e.g., marriage, career, family, country), a leitmotif of the NT. This world, according to Jesus, for example, in Mark 13, is coming to an end. So we may interpret the saying against this backdrop. The saying arises from an apocalyptic worldview. It espouses a peculiar sort of wisdom -
'don't get involved, because your involvement would be with things that are doomed.' Was Jesus this radical, annihilating the whole world in thought and value and advocating an ethic of non-involvement?
Maybe followers of Jesus, in strict obedience to the teachings, are in a sense strangers.
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