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The excerpts chosen in this volume range widely over geography and time from Justin Martyr and Clement of Rome in the late first and early second century to The Venerable Bede, Isaac of Nineveh, Photius and John of Damascus in the eighth and ninth centuries. The Alexandrian tradition is well represented in Clement of Alexandria, Origen, Athanasius, Didymus and Cyril of Alexandria, while the...

OECUMENIUS). He is the beginning and completion of our faith (AUGUSTINE). It is his death and resurrection that give us faith and endurance to reach the glory of the eternal life (CHRYSOSTOM, GREGORY OF NYSSA). The life of faith and virtue is not unlike the contest in the arena in which we are to demonstrate strength, endurance (CHRYSOSTOM, JEROME, SEVERIAN), and discipline (CHRYSOSTOM, OECUMENIUS). The early writers were conscious not only of the first coming of Christ but a second as well, far
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