James1920 fragment dossier, printedpage 31
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Work: Jannes and Jambres
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Jannes and Jambres — James 1920 preserved fragments and notes
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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 …
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- 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.
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Recorded provenance: 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.
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