The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-16
NOT IN THE BIBLE.
Especial London Gable to New Yorl
Journal

Journal.)
Henry Provide has accomplished to-
day on behalf of the Egyptian Explora-
ton Fund, THE Logia Inkou, or Say
edited by Bernard P. Graenfell and Ar
thur 5. Hunt of oxford university. The
document was found at Oxyrhynchus,
and is a leaf from a papyrus book.
1T was found" says the Introduction,
Gin a mound which produced a great
number of papyri belongings to the first
three centuries of our era, those in the
immediate vicinity of our fragment be-
longing to the second and third centu-
ries.
This fact together with evidences of
handwriting, which has characteristic
cal1y Roman aspect, fixes with GER
tainty 300 A. D. as the lowest limit for
the date at which the papyrus was writ
ten.
1.-THE general probabilities of the case
the presence of the usual contractions
found in Biblical manuscripts, and the
fact that the papyrus was in book and
not roll form, put the first century out
of the question, and make the first half
of the second unlikely. The date, there
fore, proba bly,, falls within the period
10000 A. D.
More than that cannot be said with
any approach to certainty, as an at
tempt to distinguish between second
and third century uncials is in the pres
ent paucity of dated material, extreme
ly precarious, and we are less inclined
to enter upon it now since we anticipate
that the Oxyrhynchus collection, which
contains large number of uncial frag-
mentS, will eventually throw much light
upon the question.
But in the meantime we are of the
opinion that the hand of the LOgia
fragment is far from belonging to the
latest type of uncials used before 300
A. D. and that therefore the papyrus
was probably written not much later
ures so by 80 inches, but it's height
was originally somewhat grea ter, as it
is unfortunately broken at the bot
TOM
Following are the Logia, first the
Greek and then the English verbatim:
Logon 1.-"Kai tote dfab1epsis ekba1-
Elm to karfos to en- to ofthalmo ton adel-
fon SOU
Translatien-"And then shalt thou see
clearly to cast out the mote that is in
thy brothers eye"
Confer Luke vi, AZ. which agrees ex-
actly with the wording of this passag e.
Logon 2-'Legei Iesous can NEE nees-
teuceon ton kosmon on NEE eureete ton
basiIeion ton Oeou kai con NEE sabbat-
iseete to sabbaton Onk opsestse ton pat
era"
Translation-''Jesus saith except We
fast to the world ye shall in no wise
find the kingdom of God, and except ye
keen the Sabbath We shall not see the
Father
This striking saying is of course new.
The idea of renouncing the world plays
an important part in agnOSt1c writings,
though of course not in them alone.
The phrase. We shall not find the king
dom of God recalls Matthews vi, %:
Seek We first the kingdom of God"
etc.
Legion 3-"Legei Jesous esteem en-
mesos ton kosmon kai en- sarki oftheen
autoio kai euron pantas methuon kai
ondena euron dipsenta en- AUTOS kai
pone ell psukee n1ou cpl tots uiois ton
anthropon oti tuf1oi eisin tee kardia au-
tom
Transla tion-"Jesus saith, 1 stood in
the midst of the world and in that flesh
was seen of them, and found all men
drunken and none found I athirst
among them. and my soul grieveth over
the sons of men because they are blind
in their heart"
The beginning OF this legion was pro-
badly suggested by Baruch iii, SO, a
passage which was applied by several
of the early fathers to ChriSts 6ojourn
upon earth.
Logon 4, consisting of one line, is un-
| decipherab BILE in the original logion-
Five. also mutilated, is:
'Legei jesous opou can osin hoi theoi
| kai to esmen n1onos to ego linli met au-
/ ton egeiron ton lithon kakei eurecseis
me skison to zulon kogo excl Honi."
Translation-"Jesus saith wherever
| there are and there is one alone I am
| with him. Raise the stone and there