Ante-Nicene Fathers 1: The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus (Catholic Edition)
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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume I: The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus. The Early Church Fathers is one of the most important collections of historical, philosophical and theological writings available in English to the student of the Christian Church. These documents provide the most comprehensive witness to the development of Christianity and Christian thought during the period immediately following the Apostolic Era. The Catholic edition of Early Church Fathers does not include the introductions, prolegomenae, and various interpretive comments made by the protestant editors of the Edinburgh edition. However, it retains all of the footnotes found in the printed editions. Contents of Ante-Nicene Fathers I Clement of Rome The First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians Mathetes The Epistle of Mathetes to Diognetus Polycarp of Smyrna The Epistle of Polycarp to the Philippians The Encyclical Epistle of the Church at Smyrnam (Martyrdom of Polycarp) Ignatius of Antioch The Epistle of Ignatius to the Ephesians The Epistle of Ignatius to the Magnesians The Epistle of Ignatius to the Trallians The Epistle of Ignatius to the Romans The Epistle of Ignatius to the Philadelphians The Epistle of Ignatius to the Smyrnaeans The Epistle of Ignatius to Polycarp The Syriac Version of the Ignatian Epistles The Epistle of Ignatius to Polycarp The Second Epistle of Ignatius to the Ephesians The Third Epistle of the Same St. Ignatius The Spurious Epistles of Ignatius The Epistle of Ignatius to the Tarsians The Epistle of Ignatius to the Antiochians The Epistle of Ignatius to Hero, a Deacon of Antioch The Epistle of Ignatius to the Philippians The Epistle of Maria the Proselyte to Ignatius The Epistle of Ignatius to Mary at Neapolis, near Zarbus The Epistle of Ignatius to St. John the Apostle A Second Epistle of Ignatius to St. John The Epistle of Ignatius to the Virgin Mary The Martyrdom of Ignatius Barnabas The Epistle of Barnabas Papias Fragments of Papias Justin Martyr The First Apology of Justin The Second Apology of Justin Dialogue of Justin with Trypho, a Jew Justin’s Hortatory Address to the Greeks Justin on the Sole Government of God Fragments of the Lost Work of Justin on the Resurrection Other Fragments from the Lost Writings of Justin The Martyrdom of the Holy Martyrs Justin, Charites, Paeon, Liberianus, Who Suffered at Rome Irenaeus of Lyons Irenaeus against Heresies (Adversus Haereses) Fragments from the Lost Writings of Irenaeus
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“All these, therefore, were highly honoured, and made great, not for their own sake, or for their own works, or for the righteousness which they wrought, but through the operation of His will. And we, too, being called by His will in Christ Jesus, are not justified by ourselves, nor by our own wisdom, or understanding, or godliness, or works which we have wrought in holiness of heart; but by that faith through which, from the beginning, Almighty God has justified all men; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.” (Page 13)
“Moreover, they gave her a sign to this effect, that she should hang forth from her house a scarlet thread. And thus they made it manifest that redemption should flow through the blood of the Lord to all them that believe and hope in God.6 Ye see, beloved, that there was not only faith, but prophecy, in this woman.” (Page 8)
“And thus also it was that the knot of Eve’s disobedience was loosed by the obedience of Mary. For what the virgin Eve had bound fast through unbelief, this did the virgin Mary set free through faith.” (Page 455)
“For the glory of God is a living man; and the life of man consists in beholding God. For if the manifestation of God which is made by means of the creation, affords life to all living in the earth, much more does that revelation of the Father which comes through the Word, give life to those who see God.” (Page 490)
“And the angel of God who was sent to the same virgin at that time brought her good news, saying, ‘Behold, thou shalt conceive of the Holy Ghost, and shalt bear a Son, and He shall be called the Son of the Highest, and thou shalt call His name Jesus; for He shall save His people from their sins,’3—as they who have recorded all that concerns our Saviour Jesus Christ have taught, whom we believed, since by Isaiah also, whom we have now adduced, the Spirit of prophecy declared that He should be born as we intimated before.” (Page 174)