Sophia Scriptura

Fragments (not preserved in Eusebius or Irenaeus)

Fragmenta · Παπίου ἀποσπάσματα

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These are only the fragments of Papias not already on this site. The others are in Eusebius, Church History 3.39 (the preface, John the elder, Mark, Matthew, the daughters of Philip) and in Irenaeus, Against Heresies 5.33.3-4 and 5.36.1-2.

  1. 2Maximus the Confessor reports that Papias, like Clement, called those who lived in godly innocence "children".
  2. 3Papias's account of Judas's death: his body swelled so that he was crushed by a wagon and his bowels gushed out.
  3. 7Papias taught that God gave some angels rule over the earth, but their order came to nothing (they fell).

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Author
Papias of Hierapolis
Attribution
authentic · Fragments quoted by later writers; the attribution of each rests on the citing author.
Standing
Honoured by the Catholic and Orthodox traditions. Honoured as a saint or in a church calendar by: Catholic, Orthodox.
Date
ca. 110-140 (disputed) · The date of the Exposition is disputed.
Written at
Hierapolis, Phrygia (probable)
Language
Greek
Genre
other
Reference system
fragment number, in the order of Routh's printing
SBL abbreviation
Frag.Not yet checked
Clavis
CPG number not yet checked
Text from
M. J. Routh, ed., Reliquiae Sacrae, 2nd ed., vol. 1 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1846) (Printed edition in the public domain; Tesseract OCR of a public-domain scan (Internet Archive))