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  • noun Plural of logion.

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  • noun Plural form of logion.

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Examples

  • The question is still unsolved; it is, however, possible that, in Papias, the term logia means deeds and teachings.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

  • The word logia, meaning "oracles", is frequently at the present day taken to refer to sayings, as opposed to narratives of

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

  • St. Basil is as unconscious as other early Fathers of the limitation of the word logia to

    NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works 1895

  • [174: 3] How much he included under this expression, we cannot say, but it must be observed that he does not write [Greek: ta kuriaka logia] 'the Dominical oracles,' or [Greek: ta logia] 'the oracles' simply -- the two expressions which occur in

    Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion" Joseph Barber Lightfoot 1858

  • Oracles of the Lord ([Greek: ta kuriaka logia]) and the Preachings of the Apostles '[172: 3].

    Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion" Joseph Barber Lightfoot 1858

  • ([Greek: ta kuriaka logia]) can have as wide a meaning as 'the Dominical

    Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion" Joseph Barber Lightfoot 1858

  • Here the obvious inference is that [Greek: ta kuriaka logia] in the second clause is equivalent to [Greek: ta hupo tou Christou ê lechthenta ê prachthenta] the first, just as the [Greek: suntaxin] in the second clause corresponds to the [Greek: taxei] in the first.

    Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion" Joseph Barber Lightfoot 1858

  • Again Irenæus, denouncing the interpretations of the Scriptures current among the Gnostics, uses the very expression of Papias, [Greek: ta kuriaka logia] [174: 4]; and though he does not define his exact meaning, yet as the 'oracles of God' are mentioned immediately afterwards, and as the first instance of such false interpretation which he gives is not a saying, but an incident in the Gospels -- the healing of the ruler's daughter -- we may infer that he had no idea of restricting the term to sayings of Christ.

    Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion" Joseph Barber Lightfoot 1858

  • If Matthew's book contained such "logia" or "oracles," it is probable that the original connection in which most of them were spoken was a matter of no concern to the apostle, and consequently has been lost

    The Life of Jesus of Nazareth Rush Rhees

  • Many have assumed this, or these, collections to be identical with, or at any rate based upon, the "logia," of which ecclesiastical tradition says, that they were written in Aramaic by

    Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

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