(Updated July 18, 2025)
This Author Quote Archive collects pertinent quotes from the Church Father, St. Papias of Hierapolis.
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St. Papias of Hierapolis, quoted in Eusebius, Church History (c. 130)
(§7) And Papias, of whom we are now speaking, confesses that he received the words of the apostles from those that followed them, but says that he was himself a hearer of Aristion and the presbyter John. At least he mentions them frequently by name, and gives their traditions in his writings. These things, we hope, have not been uselessly adduced by us.
(§8) But it is fitting to subjoin to the words of Papias which have been quoted, other passages from his works in which he relates some other wonderful events which he claims to have received from tradition.
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