Papias' Logia: Updates

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Updates

The wife had to work last Saturday night, so I took the kid out for dinner and then a trip to Circuit City. I got the new POD CD that came out last week - "When Angels & Serpents Dance". Pretty good CD, but I haven't had time to listen to it more than once yet, but so far a couple of standout tracks. The cover is off to the side here.

I also got my wife a 2GB MP3 player for cheap. So I have been ripping some of her CD's and transferring them over.

I also found some headphones that I had my eye on - Skullcandy Lowriders. When I paid for them, they were full price. Here is where the headphone angle gets interesting: online these things are half price what I paid in the store for them! They are pretty good headphones too - lightweight, collaspable, and they sound pretty decent, especially considering what I paid for them. The wife likes the headphones as well, except for the skull icon - she says that we have plenty of stickers to cover them up!

So I order 2 more of the headphones online, take my pair back to a different store, and these guys are totally cool. They let me keep the ones I had, and walk out with one of the new pairs - I basically got a pair for free!

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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.