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Lightfoot’s Apostolic Fathers in English is unavailable, but you can change that!

Published in 1891 (after J.B. Lightfoot’s death), this edition of the Apostolic Fathers provided a portable, one-volume version of the Greek and English texts of the Apostolic Fathers to scholars and interested laypeople. This Logos Bible Software edition contains the complete English translation from Lightfoot and Harmer, along with introductory material.

but this story might have been the consequence, rather than the cause, of the name attached to the letter. Possibly its author was some unknown namesake of the ‘Son of Consolation.’ That Alexandria, the place of its earliest reception, was also the place of its birth, is borne out by the internal evidence of style and interpretation, which is Alexandrian throughout. The picture too which it presents of feuds between Jews and Christians is in keeping with the state of the population of that city,
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