{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">[The writings of Papias in common circulation are\r\nfive in number, and these are called an Exposition\r\nof the Oracles of the Lord. Irenæus makes\r\nmention of these as the only works written by\r\nhim, in the following words: “Now testimony is borne to\r\nthese things in writing by Papias, an ancient man, who was a\r\nhearer of John, and a friend of Polycarp, in the fourth of his\r\nbooks; for five books were composed by him.” Thus wrote\r\nIrenæus. Moreover, Papias himself, in the introduction to\r\nhis books, makes it manifest that he was not himself a hearer\r\nand eye-witness of the holy apostles; but he tells us that he\r\nreceived the truths of our religion<a id=\"r1785\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1785\"><sup>[1785]</sup></a> from those who were\r\nacquainted with them [the apostles] in the following words:]</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-787"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"5074bbd42aaf8f116ff726b6ba0a18b5e09de0f5ec30c22811c0ad0b5e512bbe","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-f1785","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":"f1785","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1785\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1785\">1785</a>. </span>Literally, “the things of faith.”</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f1785","text_sha256":"f145f191620ca0f6feaa98d1e51c09b8e87f388f674f87daf8a14b8a43816a43","verified":false,"work_id":null}