This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ... and at the request of the bishops of Asia Minor, that the Gospel was directed against Cerinthus and those who asserted that Christ did not exist before He was born of Mary, and that it relates the events of what happened in the two years before the Synoptic Gospels begin to tell their tale (all of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ... and at the request of the bishops of Asia Minor, that the Gospel was directed against Cerinthus and those who asserted that Christ did not exist before He was born of Mary, and that it relates the events of what happened in the two years before the Synoptic Gospels begin to tell their tale (all of which is to be found with verbal differences in St. Jerome), the Prologue goes on to say: "This Gospel therefore it is manifest was written after the Apocalypse, and was given to the churches in Asia by John while he was yet in the body, as one Papias by name, bishop of Hierapolis, a disciple of John and dear to him, in his Exoterica, i.e. in the end of the Five Books, related, he who wrote this Gospel at John's dictation (lohanne subdictante). But Marcion Archinon Cod.) the heretic, when he was rejected by him because he thought the contrary,1 was picked out by John. Now this person had brought some writings or letters to him, having been sent by brethren who were in Pontus, faithful in our Lord. Amen."8 Statements of this kind can never be altogether set aside until they are explained. Papias was certainly not the author of the Fourth Gospel, but the fact that his "five books" are mentioned is enough to show that we are not dealing with absolutely fabricated statements. It would be impossible to discuss this document at length in a lecture such as the present: I will therefore indicate what I believe to be the solution. Papias did not claim to report St. John, as we know from Eusebius, so much as the traditions preserved by the men of the next generation. His information about the Gospels was not first-hand, but from the "Elders" and other hearers of the apostles. I think some word has fallen out in the...
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