Papias' Logia: Friday Photo

Friday, May 02, 2008

Friday Photo

Icicle in the Merced River - Yosemite.

This was just one of those photos that I didn't plan initially, just happened to be there and saw the icicle in the river. Once I saw the icicle, I knew that I had to try to get a shot with the water moving around it, using I used a slow shutter speed to get that effect. The camera was on a tripod, and I had tho scrunch the tripod down as low as it would go to get the angle right.

With these water shots, you have no idea what it's going to look like until you get your film back. This one seems to work the best.

I took the stick and icicle with me when I left, it just looked so cool!

1 comment:

Nichol said...: I feel like I have seen this one before... Maybe down the hall from Paul Langone?; 10:33 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.