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closely resem])led certain Sayings of Jesus recorded in 

 the Gospels. Others, however, were new, such as the famous 

 fifth Saying — " Jesus saith, Wherever there are (two), they are 

 not without God (a^eot), and wherever there is one alone, I say, 

 I am with him. Eaise the stone, and there shalt thou find me ; 

 cleave the wood, and there am I." Six years later a similar leaf 

 from a papyrus-book was found, this time containing five 

 Sayings, of which it must be sufficient to quote the first. " Jesus 

 saith, Let not him who seeks . . . cease until he find, and when 

 he finds he shall be astonished ; astonished he shall reach the 

 Kingdom ; and having reached the Kingdom, he shall rest." 

 The exact amount of authority to be attached to these Sayings 

 is still a matter of eager discussion amongst scholars ; but, in 

 the main, they may be regarded as embodying a more or less 

 genuine account of certain words of our Lord, which had been 

 banded down by tradition, and had been collected for purposes 

 of devotion or instruction. 



Other documents which have awakened a wide-spread 

 interest are the census returns, or house-to-house enrolments, 

 of which a large number have been recovered. As these returns 

 are dated, it can now be conclusively established that the enrol- 

 ments followed a cycle of fourteen years, and though no return 

 has yet come to light earlier than the year a.d. 19-20, it is 

 generally agreed that the whole system was originated by 

 Augustus as early as 10-9 B.C. Let me give you an example 

 of one of these returns. I shall take it from the year 

 A.D. 48, as we have a very complete example belonging to that 

 year. 



To Dorion strategus . . . from Thermoutharion, the daughter 

 of Thoonis, with her guardian Apollonius, the son of Sotades. There 

 are living in the house which belongs to me in South Lane . . 

 Thermoutharion, a freedwoman of the above-mentioned Sotades, 

 about 65 years of age, of medium height, dark complexioned, long 

 vis^ged, a scar on the right knee. Total, three persons. 



1, the above-mentioned Thermoutharion, along with my guardian, 

 the said Apollonius, swear by Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus 

 Germanicus Emperor, that assuredly the preceding document makes 

 a sound and true return of those living with me, and that there is no 

 one else living with me, neither a stran^^er, nor an Alexandrian 

 citizen, nor a freedman, nor a Roman citizen, nor an Egyptian, in 

 addition to the aforesaid. If I am swearing truly, may it be well 

 with me ; but if falsely, the reverse. 



In the ninth year of Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germani- 

 cus Emperor, Phaophi . . ." 



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