PART I. THEOLOGICAL

I. LOGIA IESU Sayings of Jesus¹.

To summarize the literature evoked by the publication of the ‘Logia,’ and to answer the criticisms directed against the view which we suggested, is far too large a task to be entered on here, though perhaps we may attempt it on some future occasion. The reader will find a useful bibliography of the literature, and a lucid exposition of the different explanations of the text and theories of its origin in Two Lectures on the ‘Sayings of Jesus,’ by Professors Lock and Sanday (Clarendon Press, 1897), though from some of their conclusions we should dissent.

We confine ourselves here to noting briefly those points connected with reading and interpretation in which we consider that criticism has made a definite advance, and to giving a revised text and translation.

In Logion II the parallels adduced from Clement of Alexandria by Mr. J. B. Mayor leave little room for doubt that nesteuein ton kosmon to fast from the world is to be taken metaphorically.

Many critics have wished to connect ten ptocheian the poverty, our Logion IV, with the preceding saying. Of the various conjectures, we prefer Dr. Taylor’s ble[pousin auton ten talai porian kai t]en ptocheian they see their suffering and their poverty. But we must enter a protest against the current view that there is an a priori probability in favour of only one line being lost at the bottom of the verso back of the papyrus. The lacuna may have extended to five or even ten lines; cf. introd. to xxii. Since there is nothing whatever to show

See separate publication, ΛΟΓΙΑ ΙΗΣΟΥ, Sayings of Our Lord, edited by B. P. Grenfell and A. S. Hunt. H. Frowde 1897.