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Jannes and Jambres
Jannes and Jambres — James 1920 preserved fragments and notes
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James1920 fragment dossier, printedpage 31
Jannes and Mambres J amies and Jambres {or Mambres). The Penitence of Jannes and Mambres is mentioned in the Gelasian Decree. Origen {on Mattheiv xxv.) says : " Paul's state- ment, ' As Jannes and Mambres withstood Moses ' (2 Tim. iii. 8) is not found in the ' public ' scriptures, but in a secret (apocryphal) book entitled the Book of Jannes and Mambres." The writer called Ambro- siaster, on 2 Timothy, says : " This example is from the Apocrypha. For Jannes and Mambres were brothers, magicians or poisoners, of the Egyptians, who thought they could resist by the art of their magic the mighty works of God which were being accomplished through
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Recorded completeness: Supplied historical testimonia, Latinfragment and patristicquotations including the Ephraem-related narrative and James’s explicitly uncertain associations, printed31–38. No later papyrus discoveries, complete reconstructed book or moderntranslation is claimed. HistoricalEnglishwording, quoted source uncertainty, lacunae, Greek/LatinOCR and notes are retained without conjectural spelling repair. Exact chapter-boundary portions selected; no adjacent work is relabelled.. Available reading sections are listed below.
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