Papias' Logia: Falls - Japanese Garden

Monday, May 22, 2006

Falls - Japanese Garden - Portland

4 comments:

Anonymous said...: Papias,

Do you have a flickr account yet?

There is a new feature on the blog where we can dislpay rotating photos and I would love to have a little section on the side with you photos on it.

THE AXED; 11:02 AM
Anonymous said...: Did you take these pictures? They are beautiful!!!

SevMer; 6:45 PM
Erik said...: All mine.; 3:45 PM
Anonymous said...: Papias,

Congratulations on Rebekah Grace!! She looks great!
Hope your wife well too. .

I just came over to see your blog and the Japanese Gardens caught my eye!! I think Portland has one of the best!!

Lord bless you!

Musing; 3:17 PM

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.