Papias' Logia: Garden Pics

Friday, June 16, 2006

Garden Pics

This is a "Weeping Norway Spruce" that I got at the end of last season for $60! They usually go for more than double, if not triple that! The guy who sold it to me didn't want to repot it, it was getting too big! The tree got a bunch of new growth this spring, so it looks like he's gonna make it. Those are "Mexican Beach Pebbles" in the front - so cool, but at $30 a bag, a bit expensive.

Hydrangea Flowers. I hope they get bigger than this, but you just never know with Hydrangeas!

Hostas. The one is front is a "Blue Mammoth" variety. This one should get about 5 feet across when mature. It now has three stalks of flowers.

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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.