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AGRAPHA (i.e. ` .` unwritten ")

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AGRAPHA (i.e. ` .` unwritten ") , the name given to certain utterances ascribed, with some degree of certainty, to Jesus, which have been preserved in documents other than the Gospels, e.g. Acts xx. 35; I Tim. v. 18; I See also:Cor. vii. 10-12, and the See also:Logia (q.v.) discovered in 1897 and 5903 at Oxyrhyncus. Two interesting examples of such sayings may be quoted: (I) "That which is weak shall be saved by that which• is strong "; (2) " Jesus, on whom be See also:peace, has said: `The See also:world is merely a See also:bridge; ye are to pass over it, and not to build your dwellings upon it."' The first of these is from the Apostolic Canons (c. A.D. 300), the second was found by the missionary See also:Alexander See also:Duff inscribed in Arabic on the gateway of the See also:mosque at See also:Fatehpur Sikri. The earliest See also:modern collection of such sayings was by Cotelerius, Ezclesiae Graecae Monuments (1677-1688), followed by J. E. See also:Grabe, Spicele ium (1698 and 1700), and J.

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Fabricius, Codex Apocryph. N. T. (2nd ed., 1719). See also A. Resch, Agrapha (See also:Leipzig, 1889) ; J. H. See also:Ropes, See also:Die Spriiche Jesu (Leipzig, 1896) ; and the See also:article " Sayings " in J. See also:Hastings' See also:Dictionary of See also:Christ and the Gospels.

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