Unknown Sayings of Jesus Jeremias Joachim
Unknown Sayings of Jesus Jeremias Joachim Our subject is the lost sayings of our Lord, or--to give them their Greek name--the the agrapha, which means literally the unwritten sayings, saying which…
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Unknown Sayings of Jesus Jeremias Joachim
Our subject is the lost sayings of our Lord, or--to give them their Greek name--the the agrapha, which means literally the unwritten sayings, saying which are not recorded in the four Gospels. How does it come about, we immediately ask, that there are such things as sayings of Jesus outside the Gospels? As a matter of fact, we possess a not inconsiderable number of sayings which have come down to us outside the canonical Gospels, a fact of great importance not only for the study of the Gospels themselves, but also for the Church and its message . . .
How did these two parallel streams of tradition arise, sayings in the Gospels and sayings outside them? Why were they left out of our Gospels? --from chapter