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Nicene and Post Nicene Fathers, Second Series, Volume IV: St. Athanasius: Select Works and Letters. The Early Church Fathers is one of the most important collections of historical, philosophical and theological writings available in English to the student of the Christian Church. These documents provide the most comprehensive witness to the development of Christianity and Christian thought...

of his ways. So he again ministered as usual to the confessors, and as though he were their fellow captive he laboured in his ministry. 47. And when at last the persecution ceased, and the blessed Bishop Peter1 had borne his testimony. Antony departed, and again withdrew to his cell, and was there daily a martyr to his conscience, and contending in the conflicts of faith. And his discipline was much severer, for he was ever fasting, and he had a garment of hair on the inside, while the outside was
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