Show FURTHER SAYINGS OF CHRIST There has been a general understanding under-standing based on Luke i 1 and John xxi I 25 and on tradition that all the sayings of Jesus Christ are1 not recorded re-corded In the Gospels Many sayings not so recorded have been put forth from the earliest times being quoted by the fathers of the church In their writings and as we learn l from Paplas these were much sought for as the living liv-ing word they were preferred to the written scrolls A collection of these rescued sayings has been made by Dr Edwin Preu chen who after a thorough thor-ough sifting has reduced the number which can thus with any degree of probability be traced to Jesus to twentyone Few of these have any striking quality and many are paraphrases para-phrases or repetitions in slightly altered al-tered form of the sayings recorded In the gospels Dr Preusschens clear grain sifted from the chaff arc taken from ancient writings and commentaries commen-taries and are as follows as we find them In the New York Independent 1 1 Therefore says the Lord Whoso ever Is I near to me Is near to a fire who soever Is far from mols tar from tho Kingdom of God t lie predicted this to us when ho said The weak Is saved by the strong 3 Therefore says the Savior Savo thyself thee and thy soil 4 1 For the Lord generously reveals In his words Preserve my mystery for mo nnd for tho sons of my house 5 Listen unto the Lord who says Be concerned for faith and hope by which that love Is born whlqh Ip I well disposed toward God and njan and which gives eternal life C On the same day he saw a man working on the Sabbath day and he mid to him 0 man IjC I thou 1 < nowest what thou art doing tlioii art blessed But 1C thou dost not know this thou art ac cursed and a transgressor cf tho law 7 Aa for tho rest the Lord said to them What arc ye astonlRhMl nt these signs I give to you a great Inheritance such as the whole world does not pos sess S He mentions as in example Ask for that t which Is great for then that which is i anuill will be given unto you and ask for heavenly things nnd you will receive also the earthly 0 Quite Correctly the Scriptures desire us to use dialectics In this wav and therefore they demand this of us Be come experienced niorey changers who are ablo to reject the false coins and keep only tho genuine This Is probably tho most popular of the oRraphu 10 Jesurj therefore said For the sake of the wrak I became weak and for tho suite of tho hungry I suffoicfl hunger and for thirst tlu It salce of the thirsty I operlcnccd 11 And on account of love he said Love hhlos the multitude of sins 12 If thou hams Been thy brother ho said thou hast soon thy God 13 Tho Lord says Behold I make the last like unto the first II Tho Lord said unto me If do ye o not make the upper to be tho lower and tho left to bo tho Into right yc shall not ent r my kingdom 1C limo Lord admonishes and says Do not mako sod the Holy Ghost that dwells In you and do not extinguish the light that shlmH In youp 10 Again says the Lord lie who Is wedded nhould not cast off hIs wife und he who Is not wedded should not mfllt marry 17 Vnosoovcr taken to himself iho hotly of tho Lord and then washes his mouth such u person Hhall bo 1 accursed uallh the t Lord 18 But our Lord replied to the apostles when they asked him what was to bo thought of tho Jewish prophets who Nid Corml formerly mudu predictions concerning him and now were thought still to bc love In bin fomlntf Yu hnv > rejected the living reality who was before you and now yo spenk fables dead concerning tho 1U For tho Scriptures B m say A who Ins not ben l tried linn not yet been man tested 2u Vo shoill try to grow out of small buKltfttliiKi iiiid from beIng irent to be coinn smaller When you cntor and Ilo down to n nicil uo not select the fnvorVd places lest afterward onf corn vio Is more honored than you and thoii ho who has Invltcil LCt you say to jou There Is still room bcloxv and yc should bo com pelled to bo ashamed 21 It has been given to nil by time Father as each one bus merited and dc acncd It A good many of these are weak others oth-ers arc superfluous tho Jdca being covered cov-ered already In tile gospels ns we have them and generally better expressed than In thefx added forms The comparison com-parison will show that those who took vhat wo have and rejected those from the canon acumen and goorl Judirmont It I Is I probable mm cover I that the < writers In whoso works times quotations are found quoted l from memory mem-ory and not with exactness so that In atoad of < their being new auyings many of them are mere variants caused by tho failure to verify 9xnet words When wo remember the uncritical I times In which these writings WCIC made the common expectation that I the end of the would was Ut Ijond when tho Lord Lwould como at once t 1 Into His Kingdom and that wha was written was not for future generations but for present warning we can the more readily believe that these sayings are for the most part paraphrases of what has all along been In the gospels When we add that there seems nothing noth-ing essential In them the conclusion must be that they were left out of the gospels because they would add nothing noth-ing to the record Besides the above reputed sayings there are seven Logla of Jesus found in tho Oxyrhyncus papyri by Grenfell and Hunt as follows 1 And pee carctully that thou remove the mote that Is In thy brothers eye 2 Tenus said If ye do not fast In reference to the world yc shall not unter Into tho kingdom of God und If yo do not rest on the Sabbath day je shall not sco the Father 1 1 Jesus said I toll In the midst of the world and 1 appeared to them in he I j llcsh and found them nIl drunken and found none among them who were thirsty And my soul Is perplexed J fjn ecrnlng1 the clilldion of men because they ore blind In their hearts and do not look at their poverty I Jesus said Wherever therearc people peo-ple there 1nm with him Lift up tho stone you will find me there split tho wood nnd 1 am there 5 Jesus said No prophet Is welcome In his own country and no physician tries to e feet cures among his own acquaintances ac-quaintances C Jesus said A city that is built on a high hill and Is fortllled can neither foil nor be hidden 7 Jesus said Thou nearest Tho third saying of this series Is filled out conjecturally the last Is almost al-most wholly lost But though these seven sayings are generally accepted I by scholars as genuine it is difficult to attach much importance to them l or to see that they add materially to the sayings of the Lord as recorded In the gospels It may be as explorers believe that many more papyri will be found in Egypt containing similar logla or sayings but unless they are of a different character from those al read found and collated they will not startle the world I |