AGRAPHA, tig'raf a, signifying °unwrit ten," sayings not recorded in the New Testa ment, but found in the MSS. of early Christian writers, and ascribed to Jesus. J. G. Korner first used the term in 1776, but its general adoption dates from 1889, when Alfred Resell' used (Agrapha) for the title of his work on the (Sayings' in Gebhardt and Harnack's und Untersuchungen.> Among early debated examples of the sayings are: °That which is weak shall be saved by that which is strong"; °Wrath destroyeth even wise men"; °A man is unapproved if he be untemptee; and °Jesus on whom be peace, has said: The world is merely a bridge; you are to pass over it, and not to build your dwellings upon it," this last found inscribed in Arabic on the gateway of a mosque at Fatehpur Sikri, by Rev. Alexander Duff, missionary to India, 1829 to 1849. The most important of the sayings are those found in 1897 and 1903 by Grenfell and Hunt at Bahnasa, ancient (Oxyrhyncus> in Egypt, all beginning °Jesus saith." Among these are: °Jesus saith, Except
you fast to the world, you shall in no wise find the Kingdom of God"; °Jesus saith, I stood in the midst of the world, and in the flesh was I seen of them, and I found all men drunken and none found I athirst among them, and my soul grieved over the sons of men, because they are blind in their heart, and see not"; °Jesus saith, Wherever there are two they are not without God, and wherever there is one alone, I say I am with him. Raise the stone, and there thou shalt find me; cleave the wood and there am I." Besides Resch's work consult also Grenfell, B. P., and Hunt, A. S., (Logia Jesu: Sayings of Our Lord from an Early Greek Papyrus' (London 1897) ; Sayings of Jesus and Fragment of a Lost Gos pel from Oxyrhyncus) (London 1904) ; Pick B., (Paralipomena. Remains of Gospels and Sayings of Christ' (Chicago 1908).