Show OLD FRAGMENT GOSPELS VALUABLE DISCOVERY OF A MOST VALUABLE TROPHY > J I Found Among n Lar e Number of Papyri Recently Received by7Dr Wiuslow o Boston 7 = Boston Feb 27Rev Dr William C Wlnslovv of this city vicepresident of I Hie Egypt exploration fund today anr I nounccrt the discovery of a most valuable valua-ble trophy ampng the lirge numbo bf papyri recently received by Tr Wns low fdr distribution among scvelal universities twentynine of which went to the University of Pennsylvania it Jq the oldest fragment of the gospels Jn the world ijov In this country Dr Wlnslow slates that the papyrus contains con-tains a large part of the flrt chapter of the gospel of St Matthew It was found at Oxyrhrnchus 110 miles 5011 th jf Cairo near the famous Login or Sayings of Jesus and Ha date Is placed by some experts 160 A D and by the editors of the societys publications publica-tions atfifty or 3ixty years later This papyrus of SL Matthew belongs to the EUHJC clasH as jhefftnOUsSI nalla and Vatican codices and of couiae Is a reijjurkablc corrpboratlon of those texts and the present accepted version On an Important doctrinal nolnt Jt dcftlnrns In pnmrnrm Hie exact language Joseph thou son of David fear not o Kikv unto thee Mary thy wife for that hirh Is conceived In her is OL the Holy Ghost This papyrus Is the oldest fragment of the gospels ol Indeed of the New Testament I Dp Wluslw stages Ihftj valuabte papyri of Hpiucr Thucydlrtes and J5u 6hl nroalBQln the collection TILe papyrus of Thucydjdes contains no less than chapters 26 to 41 nt his > fourth book elflht dutcs frorj Ile Hrsjt cen turyVery Very fortunate too says Dr Ujns lov s the University of Pennsylvania id possess asplundld papyrus of n largo part gL the fifth book of the Iliad In very good test Jt dates a little later than 209 A D The accentuation Is fuJI and somewhat unique The petition of Plonyela to the prefect dating ISO A DJs D-Js a legal document of many pages full of jusj such references to precedents JIB one finds In peUtlpn and argument to our Supieme court of JJQJ Dlonysja clfiJmH her right to property conferred by her marriage contract and enjoy the jnoonid of It without the Interference of Chaprcmon her father A bit of JihJClSd of the third century Illustrates proposition five of the second book and mpyrus 290 reveals the fact that pri ate syndicates existed at 83 A D fort for-t states how a company of residents jot together to do some banking at the IJlago of Tuxls The bankingof the Nile not of funds In meant In order to keep their lands from being too much watered All In all those papyri form a won derful collection for any library or museum mu-seum to possess A Philadelphia last season sent to the Egypt exploration fund ofljcp Jn Boston a check for 750 and Dr Wlnslovy Bays that Is why hlfadelphla reaps so handsome a return re-turn In papyri as well as antiquities as oil subscriptions to the explorations govern pro rata the distribution of the antiquities among our museums |