. Light from the ancient East; the New Testament illustrated by recently discovered texts of the Graeco-Roman world. {fia) Asclepiades, the son of Char-magon, to Portis the son ofPermamis, greeting. I havereceived* from thee the fruitthat falleth to me^ and in-crease of the lot that I have Lxike XV. 22 fE. GrieoTmche Otirdka, II. No. 1027. The facsimile there given (Plate Ilia)is reproduced here (Fig. 17) by the kind permission of the author and and Devrient, Leipzig. Cf. examples above, pp. 105, 111. Cf. above, pp. 110 fE. A regular formula, as in the parable of the Prodigal S
. Light from the ancient East; the New Testament illustrated by recently discovered texts of the Graeco-Roman world. {fia) Asclepiades, the son of Char-magon, to Portis the son ofPermamis, greeting. I havereceived* from thee the fruitthat falleth to me^ and in-crease of the lot that I have Lxike XV. 22 fE. GrieoTmche Otirdka, II. No. 1027. The facsimile there given (Plate Ilia)is reproduced here (Fig. 17) by the kind permission of the author and and Devrient, Leipzig. Cf. examples above, pp. 105, 111. Cf. above, pp. 110 fE. A regular formula, as in the parable of the Prodigal Son, Luke xv, 12;cf. Neue SiieUtudien, p. 67; Sible Studies, p. Fig. 17.—Letter from Asclepiades, an Egyptian landowner, to Period. Ostracon from Thebes. Now in the possession of UlriohWilcken. Reproduced by permission of the owner and his publishers. [p. 162 ILLUSTRATED BY THE NEW TEXTS 153 5 o5 i/iia-0ioad aot KKrjpov el<i Tov (Tiropov tov K€ L Kovdev (701 evKoXS). Eypayfrev virep ^ aHjov)Evfir)(\o<s)Epiia{. . .) a^iwdel^ Sia to ^paSv-10 repa * avTov ypa{^eiv). let to thee, for the sowing ofthe year 25, and I lay nothingto thy charge. Written for *him hath Eumelus, the son ofHerma . . ., being desiredso to do for that he writethsomewhat slowly.* In the-year 25, Phamenoth 2. This for, meaning as representative of, occurs in many texts ofsimilar character, and is not without bearing on the question of 6ir4p in the?New Testament. 2 This is no doubt a euphemism, but it helps to explain a habit of St. Paul,the artisan missionary. St. Paul generally dictated his letters, no doubt,because writing was not an easy thing to
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