Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1903-11-20
WORDS OF CHRIST FOUND
ArchaeoIogists Make Strange Discovery
in Egypt.
pApYRI BURIED OVER 1900 YEARS.
Hitherto unknown Sayings Of Jesus Dug up
by Archaeoioglsts About One hunored
Miles From Cairo. Egypt-Soms Variations
From Accepted Text-Were Probably
Written to Thomas.

London (By Cable Many hitherto
unknown sayings OF Jesus Christ have
been discovered in Egypt by archeolo'
gists who have dug up papyri, buried
since the second century, 100 miles
south OF Cairo. DR.. Bernard P. Gren-
;ell, who has been engaged in Egyptian
excavations since 1894 at the general
meeting OF the Egypt Exploration.
Fund here, gave the following details:
Accompanied by DR.. Hunt, DR..
Grenfell found rich ptolemaic necrop-
ols at El-Hibeh. The bulk of the doc
lments from one mound consisted OF a
collection OF sayings OF Jesus. They
are all introduced with the words
Jesus saith" and for the most part
are new The ends of the lines, unior-
iunately, are often obliterated. Appar-
emily all the sayings were addressed to
St. Thomas. One OF the most remark
able is:
LET not him that seeketh cease from
his search until he find, and when he
finds he shall wonder; wondering. he
shall reach the kingdom, i. e., the king
dom OF heaven, and when he reaches
The kingdom he shall have rest
Dr.. Grcnfell remarked that enor-
nous interest would be aroused by the
discoveries, on account Of the varia-
ions they disclosed from accepted
texts. One variant OF the mystical say
ing, recorded in St. Luke, The king.
1om of God is within you" was OF great
value, as the saying in the papyrus ap-
oeared in quite different surroundings
rom those attributed to it by the evan
geist and extended far into another
rcgion.
According to Dr. Grenfell these say
nps formed the new Gospel which Is
additionally associated with st.
Thomas
An interesting variation OF the Cos
bel according to St. Luke. eleventh
chapter and fifty-second verse, C"Woe
INTO you, lawyers! for ye have taken
away the key OF knowledge; we enter
I'd not in yourselves, and them that
we're entering in we hindered,") reads
n the papyrus: Eye have hidden the
key OF knowledge, ye entered not your
,elves and to them that were entering
in ye did not open.'
Another fragment contained dis
course OF Christ, closely related to pas.
sages OF the sermon on the mount, and
conversation between Christ and His
disciples, in which Christ answers Z
question as to when His kingdom will
be realized, saying: When we return
to the State Of innocence which existed
before the fall"
A valuable find was made in papyri
written in Latin, giving the text OF
The Epistle TO the Hebrews, and an cpl
tome OF Livy's six lost books. This,
with other papyri, covering the period
tso-II B. c. threw much new and val
aable information on the history OF
The world and marked the recovery OF
hitherto lost classical literature OF
Egypt.
A quaint instance OF the bushes:
methods in vogue in I1 A. D., is
shown in the discovery of an amusing
contract whereby a slave-boy was to be
:aught shorthand for I2o drachmae. The
payment was arranged on thorough.
business-ike basis, 20 drachmae down.
10 on satisfactory evidence OF progress
and 10 on the attainment OF prof.
ciency