{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">But I shall not be unwilling to put down, along with my\r\ninterpretations,<a id=\"r1786\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1786\"><sup>[1786]</sup></a> whatsoever instructions I received with care\r\nat any time from the elders, and stored up with care in my\r\nmemory, assuring you at the same time of their truth. For I\r\ndid not, like the multitude, take pleasure in those who spoke\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_442\">442</span>much, but in those who taught the truth; nor in those who\r\nrelated strange commandments,<a id=\"r1787\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1787\"><sup>[1787]</sup></a> but in those who rehearsed\r\nthe commandments given by the Lord to faith,<a id=\"r1788\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1788\"><sup>[1788]</sup></a> and proceeding\r\nfrom truth itself. If, then, any one who had attended on\r\nthe elders came, I asked minutely after their sayings,—what\r\nAndrew or Peter said, or what was said by Philip, or by\r\nThomas, or by James, or by John, or by Matthew, or by any\r\nother of the Lord’s disciples: which things<a id=\"r1789\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1789\"><sup>[1789]</sup></a> Aristion and the\r\npresbyter John, the disciples of the Lord, say. For I imagined\r\nthat what was to be got from books was not so profitable to\r\nme as what came from the living and abiding voice.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","FRAGMENTS OF PAPIAS.","INTRODUCTORY NOTICE.","I. From the Exposition of the Oracles of the Lord."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-788"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"6f83bc67163d39b74d326b840979c240daad94e83023afe1196a07e8f769020c","edition_title":"The writings of the Apostolic Fathers","edition_translators":["Alexander Roberts","James Donaldson","Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1870,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg77576-f1786","license_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html","public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"original-editor-translator-note","review_required":["work and recension attribution","original-work chronology","Bible reference numbering and citation kind","English edition rights and attribution"],"review_status":"needs_review","rights_evidence":"Project Gutenberg metadata: Public domain in the USA. Historical 1870 English edition; electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"f1786","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1786\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1786\">1786</a>. </span>Papias states that he will give an exact account of what the elders\r\nsaid; and that, in addition to this, he will accompany this account with\r\nan explanation of the meaning and import of the statements.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f1786","text_sha256":"d9df9d670b931d408416f9007da3ec30c71fe1447daf462c2df2c473212a7e62","verified":false,"work_id":null}