AGRAPHA (i.e. ` .` unwritten ")  , the name given to certain utterances ascribed, with some degree of certainty, to Jesus, which have been preserved in documents other than the Gospels, e.g . Acts xx . 35; I Tim. v . 18; I Cor. vii . 10-12, and the Logia (q.v.) discovered in 1897 and 5903 at Oxyrhyncus . Two interesting examples of such sayings may be quoted: (I) "That which is weak shall be saved by that which• is strong "; (2) " Jesus, on whom be peace, has said: `The world is merely a bridge; ye are to pass over it, and not to build your dwellings upon it."' The first of these is from the Apostolic Canons (c . A.D . 300), the second was found by the missionary Alexander Duff inscribed in Arabic on the gateway of the mosque at Fatehpur Sikri . The earliest modern collection of such sayings was by Cotelerius, Ezclesiae Graecae Monuments (1677-1688), followed by J . E . Grabe, Spicele ium (1698 and 1700), and J . B .

Fabricius, Codex Apocryph . N . T . (2nd ed., 1719) . See also A . Resch, Agrapha (Leipzig, 1889) ; J . H . Ropes, Die Spriiche Jesu (Leipzig, 1896) ; and the article " Sayings " in J . Hastings' Dictionary of Christ and the Gospels .