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Early Church Fathers

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 8

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

The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, the Pseudo-Clementine writings, New Testament apocrypha (texts the church did not accept as Scripture), and early Syriac documents.

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Contents

The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs

The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs13 pages

Excerpts of Theodotus

Excerpts of Theodotus; or, Selections from the Prophetic Scriptures2 pages

Two Epistles Concerning Virginity

Two Epistles Concerning Virginity29 pages

Pseudo-Clementine Literature

Recognitions of Clement74 pages
Book II435 pages
Epistle of Peter to James5 pages
Epistle of Clement to James20 pages
The Clementine Homilies. Books I. To V. Have Been Translated539 pages

Apocrypha of the New Testament

The Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew25 pages
Chapter 25. After No Long Time the Angel Said to Joseph: Return to the Land of Judah, for They Are Dead Who Sought the Child's Life17 pages
The Gospel of the Nativity of Mary11 pages
The Gospel of Thomas17 pages
The Gospel of Nicodemus34 pages
The Gospel of Nicodemus11 pages
The Gospel of Nicodemus17 pages
The Gospel of Nicodemus24 pages
The Report of Pontius Pilate, Procurator of Judæa, Sent to Rome to Tiberius Cæsar3 pages
The Narrative of Joseph9 pages
The Acts of Philip5 pages
Acts of Peter and Andrew. From a Bodleian ms11 pages
The Passing of Mary2 pages

The Decretals

The Epistles of Zephyrinus5 pages
The Epistles of Pope Callistus11 pages
The Epistle of Pope Urban First. To All Christians8 pages
The Epistles of Pope Pontianus3 pages
The Epistles of Pope Fabian11 pages
Decrees of Fabian4 pages

Memoirs of Edessa And Other Ancient Syriac Documents

Ancient Syriac Documents8 pages
Ancient Syriac Documents2 pages
Ancient Syriac Documents3 pages
Ancient Syriac Documents11 pages
Ancient Syriac Documents3 pages
Ancient Syriac Documents2 pages
Ancient Syriac Documents3 pages

Remains of the Second and Third Centuries

Remains of the Second and Third Centuries8 pages
VI. He that bore up the earth was borne up on a tree. The Lord was subjected to ignominy with naked body—God put to death, the King of Israel slain!7 pages
VIII. From the Oration on Our Lord's Passion. God has suffered from the right hand of Israel16 pages
Note by the American Editor. A French Writer Has Remarked, "Ce N'est Pas Spartacus Qui a Supprimé L'esclavage; C'est Bien Plutôt Blandine."2 pages

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 8, ed. Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson and A. Cleveland Coxe (1885–96). Public domain. Text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library.