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Early Church Fathers

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 1

Edited by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson and A. Cleveland Coxe · AD 95–325 (English edition 1885–96)

Clement of Rome, the Epistle to Diognetus, Polycarp, Ignatius, Barnabas, Papias, Justin Martyr and Irenaeus’ Against Heresies.

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Contents

The First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians59 pages
The Epistle of Mathetes to Diognetus12 pages
The Epistle of Polycarp to the Philippians16 pages
The Encyclical Epistle of the Church at Smyrna Concerning the Martyrdom of the Holy Polycarp23 pages
The Epistle of Ignatius to the Ephesians Shorter and Longer Versions23 pages
The Epistle of Ignatius to the Magnesians Shorter and Longer Versions16 pages
The Epistle of Ignatius to the Trallians Shorter and Longer Versions37 pages
The Epistle of Ignatius to the Smyrnæans Shorter and Longer Versions14 pages
The Epistle of Ignatius to Polycarp Shorter and Longer Versions10 pages
The Epistle of Ignatius to Polycarp7 pages

Chapter VIII. I Salute Him Who Is Reckoned Worthy to Go to Antioch in My Stead, as I Commanded Thee

The Second Epistle of Ignatius to the Ephesians6 pages
Chapter XIV. The Work Is Not of Promise, Unless a Man Be Found in the Power of Faith, Even to the End3 pages
The Third Epistle of the Same St. Ignatius6 pages
Chapter VI. The Pains of the Birth Stand Over against Me3 pages
The Epistle of Ignatius to the Tarsians11 pages
The Epistle of Ignatius to the Antiochians15 pages
The Epistle of Ignatius to Hero, a Deacon of Antioch10 pages
The Epistle of Ignatius to the Philippians16 pages
The Epistle of Maria the Proselyte to Ignatius6 pages
The Epistle of Ignatius to Mary at Neapolis, Near Zarbus7 pages
Reply of the Blessed Virgin to this Letter2 pages
The Martyrdom of Ignatius7 pages
The Epistle of Barnabas21 pages
Fragments of Papias10 pages
The First Apology of Justin71 pages
The Second Apology of Justin for the Christians Addressed to the Roman Senate15 pages
Dialogue of Justin, Philosopher and Martyr, with Trypho, a Jew142 pages
The Discourse to the Greeks5 pages
Justin's Hortatory Address to the Greeks38 pages
Justin on the Sole Government of God6 pages
Fragments of the Lost Work of Justin on the Resurrection10 pages

Other Fragments from the Lost Writings of Justin

I. The Most Admirable Justin Rightly Declared That the Aforesaid Demons Resembled Robbers.—Tatian's Address to the Greeks, Chap. XVIII4 pages

VI. Neither Is There Straitness with God, nor Anything That Is Not Absolutely Perfect.—From Manuscript of the Writings of Justin

VII. We Shall Not Injure God by Remaining Ignorant of Him, but Shall Deprive Ourselves of His Friendship8 pages
XVI. Sound Doctrine Does Not Enter into the Hard and Disobedient Heart; But, as If Beaten Back, Enters Anew into Itself3 pages
The Martyrdom of the Holy Martyrs Justin, Chariton, Charites, Pæon, and Liberianus, who Suffered at Rome5 pages
Against Heresies: Book I30 pages
Against Heresies: Book II35 pages
Against Heresies: Book III20 pages
Against Heresies: Book IV22 pages
Against Heresies: Book V16 pages
Fragments from the Lost Writings of Irenæus3 pages
IV. As long as any one has the means of doing good to his neighbours, and does not do so, he shall be reckoned a stranger to the love of the Lord4 pages
XI. The Business of the Christian Is Nothing Else Than to Be Ever Preparing for Death (Melepan Apothneskein)9 pages
XXI. But He Does Not Give, as Christ Did, by Means of Breathing, Because He Is Not the Fount of the Spirit13 pages
XXXV. If the corpse of Elisha raised a dead man, how much more shall God, when He has quickened men's dead bodies, bring them up for judgment?6 pages
XLVI. "The God of the World;" That Is, Satan, Who Was Designated God to Those Who Believe Not9 pages

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 1, ed. Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson and A. Cleveland Coxe (1885–96). Public domain. Text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library.