Ariston (bishop)

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Ariston of Smyrna
Bishop of Smyrna
Born1st century
Died2nd century
Apostolic Age

Ariston of Smyrna (

John the Elder
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Personal Information

Ariston, or Aristion, is known from early traditions (preserved by Papias of Hierapolis) as an elder from whom Papias learned apostolic traditions. Aristion is identified in Ado of Vienne (874 CE) as "one of the seventy-two disciples of Christ." Very few details are known about his life,

I shall not hesitate also to put into ordered form for you, along with the interpretations, everything I learned carefully in the past from the elders and noted down carefully, for the truth of which I vouch. For unlike most people I took no pleasure in those who told many different stories, but only in those who taught the truth. Nor did I take pleasure in those who reported their memory of someone else’s commandments, but only in those who reported their memory of the commandments given by the Lord to the faith and proceeding from the Truth itself. And if by chance anyone who had been in attendance on the elders arrived, I made enquiries about the words of the elders—what Andrew or Peter had said, or Philip or Thomas or James or John or Matthew or any other of the Lord’s disciples, and whatever Aristion and John the Elder, the Lord’s disciples, were saying. For I did not think that information from the books would profit me as much as information from a living and surviving voice.

Papias, then, inquired of travelers passing through Hierapolis what the surviving disciples of Jesus and the elders—those who had personally known the

Twelve Apostles—were saying. One of these disciples was Aristion,[2] and another was John the Elder, usually identified (despite Eusebius' protest) with John the Evangelist,[3] residing in nearby Ephesus, of whom Papias was a hearer;[4] Papias frequently cited both.[5] From the daughters of Philip, who settled in Hierapolis, Papias learned still other traditions.[6]
This close association with John could mean that Ariston too was young during Jesus's ministry.

However his name is not mentioned in any later tradition of the Seventy disciples.

Relation to the Gospel of Mark

One Armenian manuscript, Matenadaran 2374 (formerly known as Etchmiadsin 229), made in 989, features a note, written between Mark 16:8 and 16:9, Ariston eritzou, that is, "By Ariston the Elder/Priest". Implying that the authorship of the

Ariston of Pella another unknown Ariston instead. [7]

References

  1. ^ "Twenty-eight Pictures to Assist the Study of Mark 16:9-20". Archived from the original on 2016-08-20.
  2. ^ Apostolic Constitutions 7.46.8.
  3. ISBN 0802831621
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  4. ^ Irenaeus, Adv. Haer. 5.33.4. The original Greek is preserved apud Eusebius, Hist. Eccl. 3.39.1.
  5. ^ Eusebius, Hist. Eccl. 3.39.7, 14.
  6. ^ Eusebius, Hist. Eccl. 3.39.9.
  7. ^ "AGAIN THE AUTHORSHIP OF THE LAST VERSES OF MARK" (PDF).
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