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agrapha, n. pl.|ˈægrəfə|
The sing. form agraphon is rare.
[Gr., neut. pl. of ἄγραϕος unwritten.]
The collective name given to sayings attributed to Jesus but not recorded in the canonical Gospels.
[1889A. Resch (title of book written in German) Agrapha.] 1890Church Q. Rev. XXXI. 6 Resch has been successful in calling attention to some ‘agrapha’ which his predecessors had not noticed. 1900B. Jackson 25 Agrapha 8 J. G. Körner († 1785) of Leipzig, De sermonibus Christi ἀγράϕοις, [was] the first..to use the term Agrapha of the extra-canonical Sayings of the Lord. 1910Encycl. Brit. I. 382 Agrapha (i.e. ‘unwritten’), the name given to certain utterances ascribed, with some degree of certainty, to Jesus, which have been preserved in documents other than the Gospels. 1920H. G. E. White Sayings of Jesus from Oxyrhynchus p. xxx, Harris pointed out that agrapha are quoted by St. Paul, Clement of Rome and Polycarp. 1950Sc. Jrnl. Theol. III. 300 In particular he lays the axe to the word mysterion as not being a genuine word of Jesus, in spite of the fact that an agraphon survives through Clement of Alexandria. |