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Chapter XVIII.
Papias,2410
the pupil of John, bishop of
Hierapolis in Asia, wrote only five volumes, which he entitled
Exposition of the words of our Lord, in which, when he had
asserted in his preface that he did not follow various opinions but had
the apostles for authority, he said “I considered what Andrew and
Peter said, what Philip, what Thomas, what James, what John,2411
| 2411 what John A H 25 30 31 a e; omit T
Her. | what Matthew or any one else among the
disciples of our Lord, what also Aristion and the elder John, disciples
of the Lord had said, not so much that I have their books to read, as
that their living voice is heard until the present day in the authors
themselves.” It appears through this catalogue of names that the
John who is placed among the disciples is not the same as the elder
John whom he places after Aristion in his enumeration. This we say
moreover because of the opinion mentioned above, where we record that
it is declared by many that the last two epistles of John are the work
not of the apostle but of the presbyter.
He is said to have published a
Second coming of Our Lord or Millennium. Irenæus and
Apollinaris and others who say that after the resurrection the Lord
will reign in the flesh with the saints, follow him. Tertullian also in
his work On the hope of the faithful, Victorinus of Petau and
Lactantius follow this view. E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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