The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-02-07
SAYINGS OF CHRIST
Newly Discovered Admoni-
tons of Son of God.
FOUND AT OXYRHYNCHUS
PyruS Shows interpretations
of Egyptians Wrong

Jesus says, Let not him that seeketf
cease from his search until he find, and
when he finds he shall wonder; wonder
ing. he shall reach the Kingdom. and
when he reaches Kingdom he shall have
rest
This, the most remarkable OF the ne"
Savings of Jesus" unearthed at Oxy-
rbynchus. on the site of which city now
stands the sordid Arab village of Ben
ncsch, is accepted by DR.. II. T. Grenteil'
who has the direction of his excavations,
as a divine injunction to persevere In has
work.
These excavations are carried on under
the auspices of the Egypt Exploration
Fund, and six years ago had already re-
suited in revealing the first series of the
'Logia,' or savings of Jesus which writ
ten on papyri, have brought us nearer to
the actual period at which Christ lived
than any of the recorded canonical Cos
pels.
To the untutored eye its dim, blurred
and broken lines may wei seem ilegiole.
But Drs Grenfeu and Hunt were not long
in finding a key to the enigma, and that
kew consisted of the word 'karphos,
which is mote" The word occurs in one
of the best known passages Of the New
Testament With this assistance Dr..
Hunt deciphered the papyrus writing as
And then shalt thou see clearly to pun
out the mote that is in thy brothers eye"
exactly the wording of the verse in
Luke and in Matthew, though the begin
ming was missing. Thou hypocrite, cast
out first the beam out of thine own eye"
Then the second Logan or Saying of
Jesus, ran:
Says Jesus: Except ye fast to the
world We shall in no wise find the King
dom Of God, and except We keep the Sab
bath We shall not see the Father
These sayings are all in unical or CAPT
tai letters, which renders their decipher-
ment less difficult than it otherwise might
be
These words were not found in any
Gospel nor was the third Logan, which
was as follows:
Jesus saith: L stood in the midst of the
world and in the flesh / was seen of them,
and | found all men drunken and none l
found athirst among them, and my soul
erieveth over the sons of man because
they are blind in their heart and see not,
poor and know not their poverty. -
There Is a controversy as TO whether
this was uttered before the death or after
the resurrection of Christ, and the Pro-
fessor Of Exegesis at oxford, DR.. Lock,
suggests as a solution tnat the words
might have been used by the Master lin
the intimate circle Of his followers
h., ~ Of
which these Sayings were written. Dr.
GrenfeH and DR.. Hunt put the latest
possible date at 40 A. d; the earliest
might be before the close of the first cen
fury. These dates are highly significant.
For a generation after Christ no import
ant attempt was made to commit TO writ
Ing any record of His lie and sayings.
The first written portions Of the New
Testament. the Epistles of Paul, fan be
tween - and 63 a d. When the four
Gospels were written is uncertain. The
first three probably between 60 and 20 \.
D. and the fourth toward the end of the
century. Justin Martyr, who persisted un-
der Marcus AureliUs l65 \. D.. wrote OF
Memoirs of the Apostles. which are call
ed Gospels" Neither he nor Ignatius.
whose life was contemporary with the
later years OF the Apostle John. ever
quoted the Gospels by name. Papius,
who is supposed to have suffered martyr
dom in 163 \. D, writes that Matthew
wrote the Logia in the Hebrew dialect,
and each man intercepted them as best
he could In brief. the fact is. as recent
writer has said that almost nothing is
known Of the period between the Apostles
and the great teachers of the second cen.
fury"
To that very period those LoSia belong.
Or. Grenfeu himself thus describes this
wonderful result OF his researches.
The first of these finds consists OF
parts OF collections of sayings of Jesus.
similar in style to the socalied Logia dis
covered in 1897. As in that papyrIS the
separate sayings are introduced by the
words Jesus saith, and are for the most
part new. thoUsh one of the uncanonical
sayings in part known to have occur
red in the Gospel according To the He
brews. The new sayings are not 50 Wei
preserved as the previous ones. the ends
Of lines being lost Throughout They have,
however. this advantage. that the intro
duction u the collection Is given. stat
AIS tA-tAN A4t'H ett - tl44 NlN i4---S ft-t'-ltl
which Jesus spoke To Thomas and per-
haps another disciple. The first saving
is that one OF which part is already
known To have occurred i'm the Gospel ac-
cording 10 the Hebrews. and ii is one of
the most remarkable of the rncauorfcaI
sayings aScrbed t. our Lord IL is rs fol-
lows: Let not him that seeketh cease
from his search until ne find. and when
h finds he shall wonder. wondering he
shall reach the kingdom Il e.. the King
dom IF Heaven. and when he reaches tn,
kingdom he shan have rest The King
dom Of Heaven IS also the subject Of the
second saying. which Is much the longest
and most important. The kernel Of il is
that more remarkable and profoundly
mystical saying recorded by St Luke
alone Of the EvanSeiiStS. The kingdom
q God i within YOU bat the saying in
the papyrus appears in quite different
SURROUNDINGS from those attributed 10 II
from St Luke and extended lar into an
other region.
Another third century frasment we
found last winter came from q non-ca-
nonical Gospel. parallel in form 10 the
Synoptists II contained first. part OF a
discourse by cur Lord. which was closely
related 10 certain passages in the Ser
mon on the Mount Of 81 Matthew and
to parallels in ST Luxe. and. secondly.
part Of a conversation between Christ
and His Disciples This presents strik-
ing resemblance 70 q welI-known story
recorded both in The Gospel according 20
the Egyptians and In the uucanonicsI
Gospel used side BY side with the canoni-
cas Gospels by the author OF the second