To some of them, that is to say, to the divine angels of old, He gave dominion over the arrangement of the earth, and He commissioned them to exercise their rule well. And then he says immediately: but it happened that their arrangement came to nothing.
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Fragments of Papias and Quadratus 7
Fragments
About Fragments of Papias and Quadratus
An apocryphal or pseudepigraphal text — outside the canon of the Western churches, yet widely circulated among ancient Jews and Christians. Published here from a public-domain translation, edited for continuous reading.