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The term logia (), plural of logion (), is used variously in ancient writings and modern scholarship in reference to communications of divine origin. In non-Abrahamic contexts, the principal meaning was "oracles", while Jewish and Christian writings used logia in reference especially to "the divinely inspired Scriptures". A famous and much-debated occurrence of the term is in the account by Papias of Hierapolis on the origins of the canonical Gospels. Since the 19th century, New Testament scholarship has tended to reserve the term logion for a divine saying, especially one spoken by Jesus, in
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- Ancient use
- Papias of Hierapolis
- Gospel of Thomas
- Modern use
- See also
- References
The term logia (), plural of logion (), is used variously in ancient writings and modern scholarship in reference to communications of divine origin. In non-Abrahamic contexts, the principal meaning was "oracles", while Jewish and Christian writings used logia in reference especially to "the divinely inspired Scriptures". A famous and much-debated occurrence of the term is in the account by Papias of Hierapolis on the origins of the canonical Gospels. Since the 19th century, New Testament scholarship has tended to reserve the term logion for a divine saying, especially one spoken by Jesus, in contrast to narrative, and to call a collection of such sayings, as exemplified by the Gospel of Thomas, logia.
==Ancient use== In non-Abrahamic usage, logion was used interchangeably with chresmos (χρησμός) and other such terms in reference to oracles, the pronouncements of the gods obtained usually through divination.