Papias thus speaks, word for word: To some of them [angels] He gave dominion over the arrangement of the world, and He commissioned them to exercise their dominion well. And he says, immediately after this: but it happened that their arrangement came to nothing.
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Fragments of Papias and Quadratus 7
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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. English text: Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1, Fragments of Papias (Buffalo: Christian Literature Publishing Co.), Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson, 1885 (public domain). Portuguese and Spanish: Lux Veritas translations from this edition.
Source: Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1, Fragments of Papias (Buffalo: Christian Literature Publishing Co.), Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson (1885) · public domain