{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/001/0010364.htm","path":"chr/ecf/001/0010364.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/001/0010364.htm","text":"As the elders who saw John the disciple of the Lord remembered that they had heard from him how the Lord taught in regard to those times, and said]: \u201cThe days will come in which vines shall grow, having each ten thousand branches, and in each branch ten thousand twigs, and in each true twig ten thousand shoots, and in every one of the shoots ten thousand clusters, and on every one of the clusters ten thousand grapes, and every grape when pressed will give five-and-twenty metretes of wine. And when any one of the saints shall lay hold of a cluster, another shall cry out, \u2018I am a better cluster, take me; bless the Lord through me.\u2019 In like manner, [He said] that a grain of wheat would p. 154 produce ten thousand ears, and that every ear would have ten thousand grains, and every grain would yield ten pounds of clear, pure, fine flour; and that apples, and seeds, and grass would produce in similar proportions; and that all animals, feeding then only on the productions of the earth, would become peaceable and harmonious, and be in perfect subjection to man.\u201d 1746 [Testimony is borne to these things in writing by Papias, an ancient man, who was a hearer of John and a friend of Polycarp, in the fourth of his books; for five books were composed by him. And he added, saying, \u201cNow these things are credible to believers. And Judas the traitor,\u201d says he, \u201cnot believing, and asking, \u2018How shall such growths be accomplished by the Lord?\u2019 the Lord said, \u2018They shall see who shall come to them.\u2019 These, then, are the times mentioned by the prophet Isaiah: \u2018And the wolf shall lie, down with the lamb,\u2019 etc. (Isa. xi. 6 ff.).\u201d]\nFrom Iren\u00e6us, H\u00e6r., v. 32. [Hearsay at second-hand, and handed about among many, amounts to nothing as evidence. Note the reports of sermons, also, as they appear in our daily Journals. Whose reputation can survive if such be credited?]\n154:1746\n[See Grabe, apud Routh, 1. 29.]","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol I: PAPIAS: IV.","type":"page"}