The Didache, The Epistle of Barnabas: The Epistles and The Martyrdom of St. Polycarp, The Fragments of Papias, The Epistle to Diognetus

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James Aloysius Kleist
Paulist Press, 1948 - Christian literature, Early - 235 pages

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INTRODUCTION
3
TEXT
15
THE EPISTLE OF BARNABAS
27
INTRODUCTION
29
TEXT
37
ST POLYCARP THE EPISTLES TO THE PHILIPPIANS
67
INTRODUCTION
69
The First Epistle
75
TEXT
114
THE EPISTLE TO DIOGNETUS
125
INTRODUCTION
127
TEXT
135
NOTES
149
THE DIDACHE
151
THE EPISTLE OF BARNABAS
166
THE EPISTLES OF ST POLYCARP
184

THE MARTYRDOM OF SAINT POLYCARP
83
INTRODUCTION
85
TEXT
90
THE FRAGMENTS OF PAPIAS
103
INTRODUCTION
105
THE MARTYRDOM OF ST POLYCARP
197
THE FRAGMENTS OF PAPIAS
204
THE EPISTLE TO DIOGNETUS
210
INDEX
223
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Page 96 - This is the teacher of Asia, the father of the Christians, the destroyer of our Gods, who teaches many neither to offer sacrifice nor to worship.
Page 20 - We thank thee, holy Father, for thy holy name, which thou hast caused to dwell in our hearts, and for the knowledge and faith and immortality which thou hast made known to us through Jesus thy servant ; to thee be the glory forever.
Page 56 - So she went to inquire of the LORD. And the LORD said to her, "Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples born of you shall be divided; the one shall be stronger than the other, the elder shall serve the younger.
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Page 59 - Consider, my children, what that signifies, he finished them in six days. The meaning of it is this; that in six thousand years the Lord God will bring all things to an end.
Page 18 - It is the way of persecutors of the good, haters of the truth, lovers of falsehood; of men ignorant of the reward for right living, not devoted to what is good or to just judgment, intent upon not what is good but what is evil; of strangers to gentleness and patient endurance...
Page 15 - There are Two Ways: one of Life and one of Death, and there is a great difference between the Two Ways.
Page 20 - As this broken bread was scattered upon the mountains and being gathered together became one, so may Thy Church be gathered together from the ends of the earth into Thy kingdom ; for Thine is the glory and the power through Jesus Christ for ever and ever.
Page 97 - I praise thee, I bless thee, I glorify thee, through the eternal and heavenly high priest, Jesus Christ, thy beloved child, through whom, to thee, with him and the Holy Spirit, be glory now and ever and into the ages to come. Amen.

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