Papias' Logia: Friday Photo

Friday, April 25, 2008

Friday Photo

Death Valley.

This might have been the trip that I got a flat tire while in Death Valley. I would only go there in the spring, when the temps would only get up to the 80's.

No big interesting stories on this trip, sorry!

3 comments:

Nichol said...: Simply amazing!; 11:57 AM
Dusty said...: Beautiful picture Papias! You have a lot of talent.

A flat tire in Death Valley is a scary thing. Were you alone?

We had an opportunity to visit Death Valley when Buster was working in LA. We have lots of pics. I remember the sliding rocks, Scotty's Castle, Devil's golf course(is that the name? the salt area?) ...

Buster found an old Borax mine. We were poking around in some of the mounds and all of a sudden this huge bee (or something) came flying up out of there and coming right for us...we jumped in the car but the thing did not stop...it was hitting the window repeatedly trying to get to us..even charging after us as we were driving away.; 8:23 AM
Erik said...: Thanks Nic and Dusty!

Dusty, I was alone for my flat tire. Kinda scary. But it never stopped me from going out to take pics by myself. One of my Yosemite pics that I will post will have the scariest story of being by myself. You have to be careful when you travel by yourself.

The Salt flats are called Badwater - lowest point in the Western Hemisphere - I think. I have a sunrise shot from there that I need to scan.

Death Valley is so cool. It is one of those spots that you can hear nothing - not a bird, not a plane overhead, not anyone else - total silence. Nothing but your own heartbeat...; 12:26 PM

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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.