The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-11-18
WORDS OF CHRIST FOUND
ArchaeoIogists Make Strange Discovery
10 Egypt. .s.
PAPYRI BURIED OVER 1900 YEARS.
Hitherto Unknown Sayings Of Jesus Dug Up
by Arehseologlsts About One Hundred
Miles From Cairo. Egypt some Variations
From Accepted Tex,-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-
fell, 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-
oils at El-Hibeh. The bulk OF the doc
uments 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-
tunately, are often oblitcrated. 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. c., the king
dom OF heaven, and when he reaches
the kingdom he shall have rest"
DR., Grenfell remarked that enor-
nous interest would be aroused by the
discoveries, on account OF the varia-
tions they disclosed from accepted
texts. One variant OF the mystical say
ing, recorded in St. Luke, The king.
dom OF God is within you, was OF great
value, as the saying in the papyrus ap
peared in quite different surroundings
from those attributed to it by the evan
gelist and extended far into another
region.
According to Dr. Grenicll these say
ings formed the new Gospel which is
traditionally associated with st.
Thomas.
An interesting variation OF the Cos
pei according to St. Luke, eleventh
chapter and fifty-second verse, C'Woe
unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken
away the key OF knowledge; ye enter
ed not in yourselves, and them that
were entering in ye hindered,") reads
in the papyrus: "Ye have hidden the
key OF knowledge, ye entered not your
selves and to them that were entering
III NC ulu llOl open.
Another fragment contained a dis
course OF Christ, closely related to pas
sagcs OF the sermon on the mount and
a conversation between Christ and His
disciples, in which Christ answers
question as to when His kingdom will
be realized, saying: when ye 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
I5o-I37 B. c. threw much new and val
liable information on the history of
the world and marked the recovery OF
hitherto lost classical literature OF
Egypt.
A quaint instance OF the business
methods in vogue in 1877 A. D., is
shown in the discovery OF an amusing
contract whereby slave-boy was to be
taught shorthand for 100 drachmae. The
payment was arranged on a thoroughly
business-like basis, 10 drachmae down,
40 on satisfactory evidence OF progress
and 40 on the attainment OF prof.
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