logia
Americannoun
noun
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a supposed collection of the sayings of Christ held to have been drawn upon by the writers of the gospels
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the plural of logion
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They believed that Jesus was the Messiah predicted in Daniel and some of the apocryphal writings, and they cherished certain “logia” or sayings of his which formed the basis of the first three Gospels.
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It comes from the Greek words phusis, nature, and logia, a collection, or logos, discourse; and means a collection of facts or discourse relating to nature.
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But that the work referred to was not the same we now have is manifest from its name logia, discourses, sayings, or oracles.
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The authorities which he follows seem to be—the source of our Mark, the so-called Matthew logia, and some other source or sources.
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An inner logia was connected with a suite of apartments.
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