The Newly Found Words of Jesus Author:William Garrett Horder Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: INTRODUCTORY THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE INTEREST WAKENED BY THIS NEW DISCOVERY THE Egypt Exploration Fund has now for some years been searching in likely plac... more »es for remains of early times. In 1897 it was rewarded by a remarkable discovery of a page of a book which contained Sayings of Jesus. This was at Oxyrynchus, once one of the chief cities of ancient Egypt. These were published soon after their discovery, and excited great interest, and led to the production of many works thereon, and a very striking poem by Dr. Henry Van Dyke, of Princeton University, U.S.A. Further research by the same scholars—Dr. Grenfell and Dr. Hunt— on the same site led to the discovery last year of more Sayings of Jesus. This new find consists of forty-two incomplete lines on the back of a survey- list of various pieces of land. These are believed to belong to the end of the second or the early part of the third century, and are probably contemporaneous, or nearly so, with the previously discovered Sayings. The two manuscripts have many points in common :—(i) The separate sayings are introduced with the same words—" Jesus saith " ; (2) there is the same mingling of things new and old— sayings in the Gospels we possess and sayings we do not possess in these. The differences between the two collections are—(i) the newly found ones have a kind of introduction which the former ones did not possess ; (2) one of the newly found sayings is an answer to a question ; (3) the newly found sayings are more closely connected in subject, the first four of them relating to the Kingdom of God.1 The finders of these "Sayings" regard the later found as the beginning of a collection in which the earlier found ones were in after pages probably included. All thoughtful Christians are under great obliga...« less