1
An Ivri gives rise to an Ivri; a convert does not automatically generate another convert simply by status.
2
A servant seeks freedom, while a son seeks the inheritance of the father.
3
Those who inherit what is dead remain bound to death; those who inherit the living participate in life.
4
The tractate contrasts peoples who have never awakened to life with those who have encountered Truth and therefore face the possibility of genuine death or enduring life.
5
It says that when the community was 'Hebrew' it knew only a mother-image, but in its Christian identity it claims both father and mother.