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Polycarp, Letter of

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Author(s): Günther, Matthias
[German Version] The letters of Polycarp of Smyrna were lost early on. Even Irenaeus of Lyon knew only the letter to the Philippians (Iren. Haer. III 3.4). The Greek manuscripts give only Pol. Phil. 1.1–9.2; Eusebius of Caesarea has ch. 9 complete and 13:1f. incomplete (Eus. Hist. eccl. III 36.14f.). The missing passages exist in a partially inexact Latin translation (cf. J.B. Bauer). If 13.1f. is assumed to be authentic, this text represents a document written to accompany the letters of Ignatius (Ignatian Epistles) requested by the Philipp…

Papias

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Author(s): Günther, Matthias
[German Version] Papias, bishop of Hierapolis in Phrygia, contemporary of Ignatius of Antioch (Ignatian Epistles; Eus. Hist. eccl. III 36.1) and the presbyter John of Ephesus (Eus. Hist. eccl. III 39.7), wrote an Interpretation of the Sayings of the Lord in five books. Except for a few quotations and excerpts accompanying (partially contradictory) statements about the author, the work has been lost; the most important fragments are preserved by Irenaeus of Lyon and Eusebius of Caesarea. Attempts to identify additional sources (Loofs,…

Laodiceans, Letter to the

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Author(s): Günther, Matthias
[German Version] The origin of the Latin Epistle to the Laodiceans ( Ep. Lao.), transmitted in numerous biblical manuscripts since the 5th/6th century and later translated back into Greek, remains a puzzle. Widely distributed in the West, it cannot be identified either with the correspondence to the Laodiceans mentioned in Col 4:16b ( contra Lindemann, who speculates that Colossians may have been intended for Laodicea) or with the letter to the Laodiceans rejected in the Muratorian Fragment (ll, 64f.) as a Marcionite counterfeit. The arguments for…

Ephesus

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Author(s): Koch, Guntram | Günther, Matthias
[German Version] I. Archaeology – II. Church History I. Archaeology Early evidence of settlement in the area of Ephesus dates back to the 5th millennium bce. The city itself was founded sometime after 1200 bce by Ionian Greeks. Lying at the mouth of the River Cayster (though now approx. 10 km from the sea), Ephesus grew wealthy as a seafaring and trading town. Impressive architectural remains still testify to its great prosperity …