4 if, then, any one came, who had been a follower of the elders, i questioned him in regard to the words of the elders,—what andrew or what peter said, or what was said by philip, or by thomas, or by james, or by john, or by matthew, or by any other of the disciples of the lord, and what things aristion4 and the presbyter john,5 the disciples of the lord, say. for i did not think that what was to be gotten from the books6 would profit me as much as what came from the living and abiding voice.”
