Search results
Papias ( Greek: Παπίας) was a Greek Apostolic Father, Bishop of Hierapolis (modern Pamukkale, Turkey), and author who lived c. 60 – c. 130 AD [2] [3] He wrote the Exposition of the Sayings of the Lord ( Greek: Λογίων Κυριακῶν Ἐξήγησις) in five books.
Papias, bishop of Hierapolis, Phrygia (now in Turkey), and one of the Apostolic Fathers. His work, although extant only in fragments, provides important apostolic oral source accounts of the history of primitive Christianity and of the origins of the Gospels.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Papias, bishop of Hierapolis, who was a disciple of John the Divine, and a companion of Polycarp, wrote five books of Oracles of the Lord, wherein, when giving a list of the Apostles, after Peter and John, Philip and Thomas and Irenaeus wrote that John the Apostle remained until the times of Trajen, after whom were Papias Bishop of Heirapolis ...
Information on Papias. I consider the fragment X of the Roberts-Donaldson collection of fragments to be completely suspect as the alleged words of Papias. Schoedel writes about Papias (The Anchor Bible Dictionary, v. 5, p. 140):
That Philip the apostle dwelt at Hierapolis with his daughters has been already stated. [953] But it must be noted here that Papias, their contemporary, says that he heard a wonderful tale from the daughters of Philip.
The residence of the Apostle Philip with his daughters in Hierapolis has been mentioned above. We must now point out how Papias, who lived at the same time, relates that he had received a wonderful narrative from the daughters of Philip. For he relates that a dead man was raised to life in his day.
People also ask
Did Papias live in Hierapolis?
Who was Papias and what did he do?
Did Papias know the Apostle John?
What does Papias do?
Did Papias hear a wonderful story from the Daughters of Philip?
Who were Papias' disciples?
Papias was bishop of Hierapolis in Phrygia Pacatiana, a town a few m. N of Laodicea and about one hundred m. E of Ephesus. A little later in the 2nd cent., Claudius Apollinaris the apologete was bishop of the see. Papias prob. was born in the decade a.d. 60-70.
