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(1.) Mary the mother of the Lord; (2.) Mary the wife of Cleophas or Alphæus, who was
the mother of James the bishop and apostle, and of Simon and Thaddeus, and of one Joseph;
(3.) Mary Salome, wife of Zebedee, mother of John the evangelist and James; (4.) Mary
Magdalene. These four are found in the Gospel. James and Judas and Joseph were sons of
an aunt (2) of the Lord’s. James also and John were sons of another aunt (3) of the Lord’s.
Mary (2), mother of James the Less and Joseph, wife of Alphæus was the sister of Mary the
mother of the Lord, whom John names of Cleophas, either from her father or from the
family of the clan, or for some other reason. Mary Salome (3) is called Salome either from
her husband or her village. Some affirm that she is the same as Mary of Cleophas, because
she had two husbands.
36 This fragment was found by Grabe in a ms. of the Bodleian Library, with the inscription on the margin,
“Papia.” Westcott states that it forms part of a dictionary written by “a mediæval Papias. [He seems to have
added the words, “Maria is called Illuminatrix, or Star of the Sea,” etc, a middle-age device.] The dictionary
exists in ms. both at Oxford and Cambridge.”
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