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Papias
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Introductory Note to the Fragments of Papias
[1729] See Lardner, ii. p. 119.
[1730] Against Heresies, book v. chap. xxxiii. See the prudent note of Canon Robertson (History of the Christ. Church, vol. i. p. 116).
[1731] Hist. Eccl., iii. 39.
[1732] Ibid.
[1733] [Where the fragments with learned annotations and elucidations fill forty-four pages.]
I. From the exposition of the oracles of the Lord.
[1734] This fragment is found in Eusebius, Hist. Eccl. iii. 39.
[1735] Literally, “the things of faith.”
[1736] Papias states that he will give an exact account of what the elders said; and that, in addition to this, he will accompany this account with an explanation of the meaning and import of the statements.
[1737] Literally, “commandments belonging to others,” and therefore strange and novel to the followers of Christ.
[1738] Given to faith has been variously understood. Either not stated in direct language, but like parables given in figures, so that only the faithful could understand; or entrusted to faith, that is, to those who were possessed of faith, the faithful.
[1739] Which things: this is usually translated, “what Aristion and John say;” and the translation is admissible. But the words more naturally mean, that John and Aristion, even at the time of his writing, were telling him some of the sayings of the Lord.
[1740] This fragment is found in the Scholia of Maximus on the works of Dionysius the Areopagite.
[1741] Literally, “a guilelessness according to God.”
[1742] This fragment is found in Œcumenius.
[1743] Literally, “great.”
[1744] Literally, “were emptied out.” Theophylact, after quoting this passage, adds other particulars, as if they were derived from Papias. [But see Routh, i. pp. 26, 27.] He says that Judas’s eyes were so swollen that they could not be seen, even by the optical instruments of physicians; and that the rest of his body was covered with runnings and worms. He further states, that he died in a solitary spot, which was left desolate until his time; and no one could pass the place without stopping up his nose with his hands.
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