Sayei, in HindA mythology, is the <laughter of Wis- wakanna, and |)robably identical with Sangia. She was
married to the sun-god, and bore him Jama, the god of the underworld.
Sayer, Ezka, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Cliurch, was originally a member of the Tro}' Confer- ence, and was transferred to the Missouri Conference in 1850. He preached at Shelbyville, Edina, Memphis, and Kirksville, but, in 1860, he took a superannuated relation. He took up his residence near Shelbyville, preaching as his health would permit until the summer of 1804, when he died. Mr. Sayer was a preacher of no common abilities, fulfilling the duties of his station so as to win the confidence and respect of all with whom he came in contact. — Minutes of Annual Covf. 1865, p. 7.
Saying, a distinct or sustained monotone in sacred music analogous to the old "saying without note," nei- ther singing nor reading.
Sayings, Tkaditional, of Christ. There can be no doubt that, besides the words of Christ which are mentioned in the gospels, others of more or less signifi- cance were spoken bj' him, and what John (xx, 30 ; xxi, 25) sa3's of the works of Christ, we may equally apply to his words. Paul mentions (Acts xx, 35) a saying of Christ, naKapiov tOTi SiSoi ai ?/ Xafijiavtiv (i. e. '•It is more blessed to give than to receive''), which we look for in vain in the canonical gospels. The fol- lowing examples contain those sayings of Christ which the ancient Church has designated as such ; and we put them together, not because we ascribe them altogether to apocryphal authors, but because they have no ca- nonical authority in their favor:
1. "On the same day. having seen one working on the Sabbath, he said to him, O man, if indeed thou knowest what thou doest, thou art blessed ; but if thou knowest not, thou art cursed, and art a transgressor of the law." This very remarkable saying occurs in Cod. D and in Cod. (irico. /3 Rob. Stephani after Luke vi, 4. Whether or not these words were originally in Luke's Gospel, we cannot decide, but that they convey an evan- gelical meaning is certain (comp. Loisell. Opusc. p. 20 ; Paulus Colomesins, Obserration. Sticr. p. 143).
2. " But ye seek to increase from little, and from greater to less. When ye go and are bidden to dinner (duTzvrinai), sit not down in the highest seats, lest a more honorable man than thou come, and he that bade thee come and say to thee. Take a lower seat, and you be ashamed. But when thou sit down in a lower seat, and a less honorable man than thou come, then he that bade thee will say imto thee. Go up higher, and this will be profitable to thee." This saying is also found in Cod. D or Cantabrig. and in some other codd. after Matt, xx, 28 (corap. Griesbach, N. T. ad loc. ; Tischendorf, N. T. ad loc). That this addition was well known may be seen from the fact that Juvencus (q. v.), in his Hist. Evang. 3, 613 sq., has given it in the following verses:
"At vos ex minimis opibns transscendere vultis, Et sic e snnimis lapsi comprenditis inms. Si vos qiiisque vocat ccenne convivia ponens Coniibus in suinmis deviiet pouere membra Qnisqiie sai)it, veniet forsan si nobilis alter, Turpiter exiniio cogetur cedere cornu Quern tumor inflnti cordis per summa locarat. Sin contentus erit mediocria prendere coena Inferiora dehinc si mox c<inviva siibibit. Ad potiora i)udeu8 transibit strata tororum."
3. "The Lord says in the (Jospel, If ye keep not that which is small, who will give you that which is great'? For I say unto you that he who is faithful in very little is faithful also in much." This is found by Clem. Kom. (h'pist. J I ad Coiinth. 8 ; comp. Iren. .1 dr. Iltpres. ii, 04).
4. "And Jesus says, For those that arc sick, I was sick ; and for those that hunger, 1 suffered hunger; and for those that thirst, I suffered thirst." It is difficult to saj' whether this citation, which is found by Origen {Com- ment, in Matt. torn, xiii [torn, iii, 563, ed. De la Rue]), can claim anv originalitv or not (comp. Matt, xxv, 35; 1 Cor. ix, 20-22).
5. " Ask great things, and the small shall be added
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unto you ; ask heavenlj' things, and the earthly shall be added unto you." This saying, which is found in Clem. Alex. (Strom. I, i, 41G [ed. Pott, ii, 488]; Orig. JJe Orat. ii, 43; 0pp. i, 1D7, 219), seems not to be taken from an apocryphal gospel (conip. tJrabe, Sjnnleg. i, 14), or from an interpolated codex (Fabricius, Cod. Apocr. N. T. i, 329), but has been freely cited from Matt, vi, 33. Such license is often used in common life, when quoting the sentence of another, which is not done ver- batim, but with such words as the circumstances and the connection of speech require.
6. " Show yourselves tried money-changers" (jyivtaSit rpuTTt^lTai SoKijiot). This saying of Christ, which is found in Clement. //o7)/27. ii, 51 ; iii, 50; xviii,20; Epi- phan. Hceres. xliv, 2 ; Orig. A d .Jo/i. torn. xix, 8, 20, p. 268 ; Jerome, Epist. 119 (ed. Vallars. i, 815); Socrates, Hist. Eccl. iii, 16, is first cited without any authority (in the ApostoL Constit. ii, 36), then as a passage of Scripture b}' Clem. Alex. (IStrom. I, i, 425), and also as an apos- tolic, but more especialh' Pauline, commandment (comp. Dionys. Alex. ap. Euseb. Hhf. Eccl. vii, 7 ; Cj-rill. Alex. Ad Jes. ii, 56). Under these circumstances, it will be difficult to decide who the author of this saying is.