Note 3 — Chapter XI · THE LOGIA THEORY AND THE HISTORICAL TEXT

Similarly Dr. Petrie assumes that there were any number of logia current, all genuine, and that the gospel-makers simply cite from them wherever they are found appropriate to the circumstances of the moment. “These episodes, thus brought into prominence by the conditions of the time, were therefore incorporated in the Nucleus, or in the gospels which grew upon that.”3 It now behoves us to consider that interesting development of traditionalist theory.