LOGIA, a title used to describe a collection of the sayings of Jesus Christ ([Greek: logia Iêsou]) and therefore generally applied to the "Sayings of Jesus" discovered in Egypt by B. P. Grenfell and A. S. Hunt. There is some question as to whether the term is rightly used for this purpose. It does not occur in the Papyri in this sense. Each "saying" is introduced by the phrase "Jesus says" ([Greek: legei]) and the collection is described in the introductory words of the 1903 series as [Greek: logoi] not as [Greek: logia]. Some justification for the employment of the term is found in early Christian literature. Several writers speak of the [Greek: logia tou kuriou] or [Greek: ta kuriaka logia], i.e. oracles of (or concerning) the Lord. Polycarp, for instance, speaks of "those who pervert the oracles of the Lord." (Philipp. 7), and Papias, as Eusebius tells us, wrote a work with the title "Expositions of the Oracles of the Lord." The expression has been variously interpreted. It need mean no more (Lightfoot, _Essays on Supernatural Religion_, 172 seq.) than narratives of (or concerning) the Lord; on the other hand, the phrase is capable of a much more definite meaning, and there are many scholars who hold that it refers to a document which contained a collection of the sayings of Jesus. Some such document, we know, must lie at the base of our Synoptic Gospels, and it is quite possible that it may have been known to and used by Papias. It is only on this assumption that the use of the term Logia in the sense described above can be justified. "The Sayings," to which the term Logia is generally applied, consist of (a) a papyrus leaf containing seven or eight sayings of Jesus discovered in 1897, (b) a second leaf containing five more sayings discovered in 1903, (c) two fragments of unknown Gospels, the former published in 1903, the latter in 1907. All these were found amongst the great mass of papyri acquired by the Egyptian Exploration Fund from the ruins of Oxyrhynchus, one of the chief early Christian centres in Egypt, situated some 120 m. S. of Cairo. The eight "sayings" discovered in 1897 are as follows:-- 1. ... [Greek: kai tote diablepseis ekbalein to karphos to en tô ophthalmô tou adelphou sou]. 2. [Greek: Legei Iêsous ean mê nêsteusête ton kosmon ou mê eurête tên basileian tou theou. kai ean mê sabbatisête to sabbaton ouk opsesthe ton patera]. 3. [Greek: Legei Iêsous e[s]tên en mesô tou kosmou kai en sarki ôpsthên autois, kai euron pantas methuontas kai oudena euron dipsônta en autois, kai ponei ê psychê mou epi tois huiois tôn anthrôpôn, hoti typhloi eisin tê kardia autô[n] k[ai] ou ble[pousin]].... 4. [Illegible: possibly joins on to 3] ... [Greek: [t]ên ptôcheian]. 5. [Greek: [Leg]ei [Iêsous hop]ou ean ôsin [b, ouk] e[isi]n atheoi kai h[o]pou e[is] estin monos, [le]gô, egô eimi met aut[ou] egei[r]on ton lithon kakei heurêseis me, schison to xylon kagô ekei eimi].