the Apostolic Fathers in 1765.13 The Didache, since its rediscovery in the nineteenth century, has regularly accompanied the collection as well.14 The scholarly work of J. B. Lightfoot, Theodore Zahn, and others elevated the “middle recension” of Ignatius’s epistles as the preferred form of the Ignatian correspondence.15 In the Anglophone world, the “most readily available” and “widely used” editions of the Apostolic Fathers are Bart Ehrman’s entry in the Loeb Classical Library (2003) and Michael