约翰长老
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约翰长老(英语:John the Presbyter),早期基督教会的一个人物,但是他的事迹被记载得不多。有人认为他即是使徒约翰、拔摩岛的约翰,但也有不同的说法。在帕皮亚的著作中,提到这位约翰长老。
学者认为,在新约中,作者题名为约翰的著作之中,可能有部份是由他创作的。亚历山大的丢尼修主教(Dionysios of Alexandria)曾提出,在以弗所教会中,一位名为约翰的长老创作了《启示录》。该撒利亚的优西比乌认为《启示录》、约翰二书与约翰三书是由此人所做。
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[编辑]帕皮亚的著作
[编辑]希拉波利斯主教帕皮亚在西元二世纪时,写作了《解释主所说的话》(κυριακῶν λογίων ἐξηγήσις,Kyriakôn logiôn exêgêsis,英语:Exposition of the Sayings of the Lord),共五卷。在其中提到了一位约翰长老。虽然这本书已经佚失了,但是在爱任纽及优西比乌的著作中,保存了部份内容。
- But I shall not be unwilling to put down, along with my interpretations, whatsoever instructions I received with care at any time from the elders, and stored up with care in my memory, assuring you at the same time of their truth. For I did not, like the multitude, take pleasure in those who spoke much, but in those who taught the truth; nor in those who related strange commandments, but in those who rehearsed the commandments given by the Lord to faith, and proceeding from truth itself. If, then, any one who had attended on the elders came, I asked minutely after their sayings,--what Andrew or Peter said, or what was said by Philip, or by Thomas, or by James, or by John, or by Matthew, or by any other of the Lord's disciples: which things Aristion and the presbyter John, the disciples of the Lord, say. For I imagined that what was to be got from books was not so profitable to me as what came from the living and abiding voice.
但是,我不会不情愿地随著我的解释而放下我在任何时候从老人那里得到的任何指示,并在我的记忆中小心存放,同时向他们保证他们的真相。 因为我没有和众人一样,乐于那些说得多的人,而是那些教导真理的人。 也不是那些与陌生诫命相关的人,而是那些排练主赐给信仰的诫命,并从真理本身出发的人。 那么,如果有任何一个参加长老的人来了,我会在他们的说法后仔细询问, - 安德鲁或彼得说的话,菲利普,托马斯,詹姆斯,约翰或者约翰所说的话。 马太,或主的门徒中的任何其他人:耶和华的门徒阿里斯蒂安和长老约翰所说的话。 因为我想像从书本中得到的东西对我来说并不像生活和持久的声音那样有利可图。