Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1903-11-15
BY kRCHAEOL
Hitherto Unknown Sayings
of Jesus Christ Found.
BURIED SINCE SECOND CENTURY.
In Mound, One Hundred Miles South
of Cairo, Egypt, Some interesting
Will Be of Great Interest.

Discoveries Are Made by Explorers.
Will Be of Great Interest.
London, Nov. 14.-Many hitherto
unknown sayings of Jesus Christ have
been discovered in Egypt by archaelo-
gists who say they have been buried
since the second century, 100 miles
south of Cairo. DR.. Bernard P. Gren-
fell, who has been engaged in Egyp-
tian excavation since 1894, at the gen
eral meeting of the Egypt exploration
fund here yesterday, gave the follow.
ing details:
Accompanied by DR.. Hunt, DR..
Grenfell found a rich ptolemaic necroI.
osis at El-Hibeh.
The bulk of the documents from one
mound consised of a collection Of say.
ings of Jesus. They are all intro
duced with the words:
Jesus SAITH" and for the most part
are new The ends of the lines, un-
fornately, are often obliterated. Ap:
partently all the sayings were ad.
dressed to st. Thomas. One of the
most remarkable is:
Let not him that seeketh cease from
his search until he finds, and when
he finds, he shall wonder; wondering
he shall reach the kingdom (ie) the
kingdom 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 va.
riations 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 papy.
rus appeared in quite different sur.
roundings from those attributed to it
by the evangelist and extended far in.
to another region.
According to Dr. Grenfell these say.
ings found the new gospel which is
traditionaly associated with St. Thorn
as.
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 TAX
en- away the key of knowledge; yet
entered not in yourselves and them
that were entering in, ye hindered')
reads in the papyrus:
'Ye have hidden the key of knowI
edge; ye entered not yourselves and
to them that were entering in, ye did
not open"
Another fragment contained a dis
course of Christ, closely related to the
passages Of the sermon on the mount
and a conversation beween Christ and
His disciples, in which Christ answers
a question as to when His kingdom
will be realized, saying:
When ye return to the State of in.
nocence which existed before the fall"
A valuable find was made in payri
written in Latin, giving the text of
the Epistle to the Hebrews and an epi.
tome of Livy's six lost books. This.
with other papyri, covering the period
150-137 B. c., threw much new and
valuable information on the history of
the world and marked the recovery OF
hitherto lost classical literature OF
Egypt.
A quaint instance of business meth.
DDS in vogue in 1873 A. D. is shown in
the discovery of an amusing contract
Whereby slave boy was to be taught
shorthand FOR 12o drachmae. The
payment was arranged on a thorough.
ly business-like basis, 40 drachmae
down, 40 on satisfactory evidence OF
progress and 40 on the attainment OF
proficiency 49,