Fragments (not preserved in Eusebius or Irenaeus) (complete)
Greek text: Routh 1 (OCR made for this site).English: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), public domain (CC0).
Chapter 2
2Routh 1:46
Τοὺς κατὰ Θεὸν ἀκακίαν ἀσκοῦντας παῖδας ἐκάλουν , ὡς καὶ Παπίας δηλοῖ βιβλίῳ πρώτῳ τῶν Κυριακῶν ᾿Εξηγήσεων, καὶ Κλήμης ὁ ᾿Αλεξανδρεὺς ἐν τῷ Παιδαγωγῷ.
Tous kata Theon akakian askountas paidas ekaloun , hōs kai Papias dēloi bibliǭ prōtǭ tōn Kyriakōn ᾿Exēgēseōn, kai Klēmēs ho ᾿Alexandreus en tǭ Paidagōgǭ.
They used to call those who practiced innocence in God's way "children," as Papias also shows in the first book of the Expositions of the Lord's Sayings, and Clement of Alexandria in the Instructor.
Matt 18:3 (echo, low confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Maximus the Confessor reports that Papias, like Clement, called those who lived in godly innocence "children".
- Preserved by Maximus the Confessor in a scholion on Pseudo-Dionysius, On the Celestial Hierarchy 2; the sentence is Maximus's report, not Papias's own words. Clement: Instructor 1.5–6. The Greek is uncorrected OCR of Routh; a clear slip is corrected (logged).
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip (Latin letters)): -Tobs → Τοὺς.
Extrabiblical texts: Clement of Alexandria, Paed. 1.5 (The Instructor; allusion)
Cite (SBL): Papias, Frag. 2 (Routh 1:46; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/papias-fragmenta/2/#p-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek (Routh, Reliquiae Sacrae 1); compared afterwards with ANF 1.
Chapter 3
3Routh 1:47
Μέγα ἀσεβείας ὑπόδειγμα ἐν τούτῳ τῷ κόσμῳ περιεπάτησεν ᾿Ιούδας. πρησθεὶς γὰρ ἐπὶ τοσοῦτον τὴν σάρκα, ὥστε μὴ δύνασθαι διελθεῖν, ἁμάξης ῥᾳδίως διερχομένης, ὑπὸ τῆς ἁμάξης ἐπιέσθη. ὥστε τὰ ἔγκατα αὐτοῦ ἐκκενωθῆναι.
Mega asebeias hypodeigma en toutǭ tǭ kosmǭ periepatēsen ᾿Ioudas. prēstheis gar epi tosouton tēn sarka, hōste mē dynasthai dielthein, hamaxēs rhądiōs dierchomenēs, hypo tēs hamaxēs epiesthē. hōste ta enkata autou ekkenōthēnai.
Judas walked about in this world as a great example of ungodliness. For his flesh swelled so much that he could not pass where a wagon passes easily; he was crushed by the wagon, so that his bowels were emptied out.
Acts 1:18 (allusion, high confidence) · Matt 27:5 (allusion, medium confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Papias's account of Judas's death: his body swelled so that he was crushed by a wagon and his bowels gushed out.
- Preserved by Apollinaris of Laodicea (in Oecumenius on Acts 1:18), from Papias, book 4. Other witnesses give a longer form of the story, in which Judas dies on his own land; this short form is translated as printed. Compare Acts 1:18; Matt 27:5. The Greek is uncorrected OCR of Routh; clear slips are corrected (logged).
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip (Latin letters); OCR split word): περιε πάτησεν → περιεπάτησεν; πρησθεὶς yap → πρησθεὶς γὰρ; vro τῆς → ὑπὸ τῆς.
Cite (SBL): Papias, Frag. 3 (Routh 1:47; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/papias-fragmenta/2/#p-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek (Routh, Reliquiae Sacrae 1); compared afterwards with ANF 1.
Chapter 7
7Routh 1:52
᾿Ενίοις δὲ αὐτῶν, δηλαδὴ τῶν πάλαι θείων ἀγγέλων, καὶ τῆς περὶ τὴν γῆν διακοσμήσεως ἔδωκεν ἄρχειν, καὶ καλῶς ἄρχειν παρηγγύησε. Καὶ ἑξῆς φησίν: εἰς οὐδὲν δὲ συνέβη τελευτῆσαι τὴν τάξιν αὐτῶν.
᾿Eniois de autōn, dēladē tōn palai theiōn angelōn, kai tēs peri tēn gēn diakosmēseōs edōken archein, kai kalōs archein parēngyēse. Kai hexēs phēsin: eis ouden de synebē teleutēsai tēn taxin autōn.
To some of them (that is, of the angels who were divine of old) he gave rule also over the ordering of the earth, and charged them to rule well. And next he says: But it came about that their order came to nothing.
Rev 12:9 (echo, medium confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Papias taught that God gave some angels rule over the earth, but their order came to nothing (they fell).
- Preserved by Andrew of Caesarea, Commentary on Revelation (on Rev 12:7–9), from Papias; the explanatory words in brackets are Andrew's. Compare Rev 12:7–9. The Greek is uncorrected OCR of Routh.
Cite (SBL): Papias, Frag. 7 (Routh 1:52; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/papias-fragmenta/2/#p-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek (Routh, Reliquiae Sacrae 1); compared afterwards with ANF 1.