Footnote

a In confirmation of the above The Encyclopedia Americana, Volume 21 (edition of 1929), page 268, says: “PAʹPI·AS, Christian writer, bishop of Hierapolis. He is described by Irenæus and later writers as a ‘hearer of John and a companion of Polycarp.’ He suffered martyrdom at Pergamos in 163 A.D. He was one of the earlier believers in the millennium, that is, the personal reign of Christ on earth for a thousand years after the resurrection of the dead, and was the author of five books of commentaries on the sayings of the Lord (Lógōn Kyriakôn Exegesis), a few fragments of which are extant. It is from them that we learn that Saint Matthew’s Gospel was traditionally believed to have been written in Hebrew, and the evangelist Mark to have been the interpreter or amanuensis of Peter in writing the Third Gospel.