Papias' Logia: Friday Photo

Friday, April 18, 2008

Friday Photo

Yosemite Valley with El Capitan shrouded in low clouds. 4x5 positive(you can see the poor job of scanning I did - I will have to rescan this.

This pic was part of a weekend project when I was in college getting my degree. For a reason the eludes me today, I decided to do one of my photo class assignments by taking a road trip. It was in the fall and I started by going to Mono Lake. After I got my shot at sunset, I then went to the hotel in Lee Vining. They had on the board that Tioga Pass was closed that night, and that it may open in the morning. I needed to get to Yosemite by the next day, as I had reservations that I didn't want to not use.

So I get up early the next morning, and Tioga Pass is still closed, but the passes to the north are still open. I decided to go for it on the next pass north, which I think was Sonora Pass. I get there, and that pass is closed. So I decided to try the next pass to the north, and it was open. I had to "go a little faster" than I wanted to to get to Yosemite while it was still light enough to shoot, but I made it! I think I got a few shots off before it got too dark. But this one photo was worth the trip.

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About my namesake...

Papias wrote in the first half of the second century and was one of the early leaders of the Christian church. Church historian Eusebius calls him the "Bishop of Hierapolis" (modern Pamukkale, Turkey) which is 22 kilometers from Laodicea near Colossae (see Colossians 4:13).

His “Interpretations of the Sayings of the Lord” (his word for "sayings" is "logia") in five books, would have been a prime early authority in the exegesis of the sayings of Jesus. His treatise, however, has utterly disappeared, and is known only through fragments quoted by later writers, with approval by Irenaeus in "Against Heresies", and later with scorn by Eusebius of Caesarea in "Ecclesiastical History."

Eusebius calls Papias "a man of small mental capacity" (Hist. Eccl. 3.39.13), who mistook the figurative language of apostolic traditions. Whether this was so is difficult to judge without the text available; it is thought that perhaps Eusebius objected to Papias' premillenialism (chiliasm), which by the fourth century had been supplanted by the common church doctrine of amillennialism.

It was thought that Papias was "a hearer of John, and companion of Polycarp, a man of old time." According to another tradition, Papias shared in the martyrdom of Polycarp, (c. AD 155). Eusebius, who places him with Clement and Ignatius under the reign of Trajan, suggests that he wrote about AD 115. In all likelihood, he wrote his treatise in the first quarter of the second century. What remains today are only fragments of his Treatise quoted in the writings of Irenaeus and Eusebius.