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turaires,” in Forma Futuri, FS M. Pellegrino (Turin, 1975), 462–69; W. R. Schoedel, Polycarp, Martyrdom of Polycarp, Fragments of Papias, TAP 5 (London , 1966); and, most recently, G. Buschmann, Martyrium Polycarpi. Eine formkritische Studie, BZNW 70 (Berlin and New York, 1994). 9. CPG 1040. See Die Polykarpbriefe, trans. with notes by J. B. Bauer, Komm. zu Apost. Vätern 5 (Göttingen, 1995); Die apostolischen Väter. Clemens von Rom, Ignatius von Antiochen, Polykarp von Smyrna, trans. with intro. by H. U. Von Balthasar, Christliche Meister 24 (Einsiedeln, 1984); Ignacio de Antioquia , Cartas. Policarpo de Esmirna, Carta. Carta de la iglesia de Esmirna a la iglesia de Filomelio, trans. with intro. and notes by J. J. Ayán Calvo (Madrid, 1991); Paulsen, HNT 18 (1985): 109–26; L. W. Barnard, “The Problem of Saint Polycarp’s Epistle to the Philippians,” ChQR 163 (1962): 421–30 [= idem, Studies in the Apostolic Fathers (1966), 31–39], on P. N. Harrison’s 1936 hypothesis; H. O. Maier, “Purity and Danger in Polycarp’s Epistle to the Philippians: The Sin of Valens in Social Perspective,” JECS 1, 3 (1993): 229–48. 10. See h.e. 3.36. references Q 1, 76–82 — Dr, 43–45, 78–80 — TLG 1622 — CPG 1, 1040–42 — Cath 11, 595–97, P.-Th. Camelot — DSp 12, 1902–8, D. van Damme — EEC 22 , 933–34, G. F. Snyder — EECh 2, 701, P. Nautin — LThK 8, 597–98, J. A. Fischer — NCE 11, 535–36, F. X. Murphy — TRE 16, 40–45, W. R. Schoedel — ANRW II, 27, 1, 386–92 (Polycarp and Ignatius), W. R. Schoedel — PWRE 21, 2, 1662–93, P. Meinhold — Vielhauer, Geschichte, 552–566 — Dihle, Greek and Latin, 297, 308 — H. Y. Gamble, Books, 110–16 — Paulsen, Handbuch zum Neuen Testament, 18 XVIII. PAPIAS THE BISHOP apias, a disciple of John and bishop of Hierapolis in Asia,1 wrote only five volumes, entitled An Explanation of the Discourses of the Lord.2 In these, since he is asserting in his preface that he does not follow various opinions but that he has the apostles as witnesses, he says:3 2. “I examined what Andrew said, what Peter said, what Philip, Thomas, James, John, Matthew, and any other of the disciples of the Lord said, and what Aristion and the elder John, 36 ST. JEROME the disciples of the Lord, were saying. For I did not suppose that books were useful for me to read so much as the living voice surviving in the authors to the present day.”4 3. It is obvious from this catalogue of names that the John who is listed among the apostles is not the same as the elder John whom he numbers after Aristion. A further reason for saying this is because of the opinion mentioned earlier,5 held by very many, that The Second and Third Epistle of John are the work, not of the Apostle, but of the presbyter.6 4. He is said to have published the Jewish opinion of one thousand years [of reign] at the deutevrwsin,7 at the Second Coming, a view shared by Irenaeus,8 Apollinaris, and others, who claim that after the resurrection the Lord will reign in the flesh with the saints. Tertullian also, in his work On the Hope of the Faithful,9 Victorinus of Pettau,10 and Lactantius11 are attracted by this same view. notes 1. Eus., h.e. 2.15; U. H. J. Körtner, Papias von Hierapolis: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des frühen Christentums (Göttingen, 1983); R. M. Grant, “Papias in Eusebius’ Church History,” Mélanges d’histoire des religions, FS Henri-Charles Puech (Paris, 1974), 209–14. 2. J. A. Kleist, The Didache, The Epistle of Barnabas, The Epistles and the Martyrdom of St. Polycarp, The Fragments of Papias, The Epistle to Diognetus, ACW 6 (1946); W. R. Schoedel, Polycarp. Fragments of Papias, Vol. 5 in The Apostolic Fathers. A New Translation and Commentary (New York, 1967), 89–130; V. Bartlet, “Papias’s Exposition: Its Date and Contents,” in Amicitiae Corolla, FS J. R. Harris (London, 1933), 15–44. 3. h.e. 3.39; J.-D. Dubois, “Remarques sur le fragment de Papias cité par Irenée [Iren., Adv. haer. 5.33.3–4],” RHPR 71 (1991) 3–10; C. M. Nielsen, “Papias. Polemicist against whom?,” TS 35 (1974): 529–35. 4. J. Kürzinger et al., Papias von Hierapolis und die Evangelien des Neuen Testaments . Gesammelte Aufsätze, Neuausgabe und Übersetzung...

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