| Show SAYINGS OF CHRIST the question whether to la the four gospels we have hare all the records of the sayings of christ or whether some of them have been preserved in other writings bats baa recently been investigated and the results result set beet forth to in an article in the columbus theological mago magazine zine none NODS of the gospels pro besses to be a complete record of all the works or desus of our lord oo on the ibe contrary the gospel by john ex states that there are me many dy things left jelt our fut and this to true also of the other kotches Whet lier it Is ia possible poe aible to recover from other sources suy of the thousands of sayings and not mot recorded in the new nt in ia the author endeavors to answer lie he arguea argued that some of the oldest writers writ erg of ane church justin the martyr and others have in their writ lugs buob Isay inge of the lord a statement ement which la Is out nut improbable it it in IB homem that many of these must have been handed banded down dow 0 to them from those who foll hollwed wed christ during his hia ministry on earth bach saying are called 1 our or not but written in contre contract bt to the ani i rapha 01 or those recorded in the aos pole pele it la Is claimed that such burg aba are found bund in great i umbers and that they are even incorporated to in the T amud som at the pai jea ana bv t y tuition petition in the loru is prayer are paralleled lu in jewish writings writing and the be jis IB thought well kundu that they were appropriated by jew lab rabble As instances of sayings of our lora dot recorded in the gospels averal art given it Is IB more blessed to give to receive is expressly quoted 1 by paul as aa one of acid be must muei certainly bi bave ve picked it IL up irom from we traditional store bouise bouee of primitive christians how many more of such way may be incorporated in the vow new testament without being ex pressly ascribed to jesus we have bave no wean means of knowing it la Is possible aible aist we have in the pauline and writings burte a number ut u christee Chr lete istRe which we no BO lonier longer recognize as an such it is 18 certain that inert were collections ol of such sayings in the arly which have been lust another saying baying be good money prove all li bings balu lost that which Is if abstain every form of evil 4 the latter jailer part pan of this thi is IB found lo in I 1 those 6 22 23 origen states that it is the quotation oi 01 I 1 the words worda of our lord JL iori and it is As therefore thought that paul maue use uee of a saying so BO familiar tam iliac amontis the ibe chrie as bot to need any reference to ito if arlson he who la Is bear unto mt me to in near unto a firt fir he ebi ft far from me in far from the kingdom 11 is ascribed to carlat i ty y origen in his sermon on jere J ere 80 3 8 land dd is alho alao mentioned an aa such by b didymus f alexandria frigen la in it with the words 1 I have fa 1 somewhere soine where read this word of the lord for the sake of the he weak I 1 became weak for the sake bake lf if the hungry I 1 have hungered tor for the make bake of the be thirsty I 1 have suf buffered fared thirst is also aleo claimed by didgen to be a saying ol of the loid huttt not the sun go down over at fiur air aratt 1 these words are infused tolua in eab 4 24 but nut dot as aa a dictum of the luril lord in A dialogo Dia loge loile the true faith they are to and aad bit bh claim to la reiterated by other early christian writers tere A hermau scholar has baa made a ot of such agra bg rapha pho ol of tuest are a lew few specimens the rucj ot ct is of much interest inte reet as aa throwing a no new light over the literature ut of abt tu early ages agee Wl whether aether ut or ol at it at 18 pobe kle ble to identify tits words ot of christ la in the author atie presence a 0 them all b the nw aru we early V athers be ducut ed aud and this tact fact dibut even at ai a time lime when inspiration is ia given the church it centers rould ano draws draw lt it irom him tie the 0 01 bite the maju spring ol of blivins |
