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The aim of Patristic Study is to draw the attention of the reader to the vast store of wisdom to be found in the writings of the Fathers of the ancient church. Monuments of Christian thought in the first generations of the Church’s life, the writings of the Fathers are still of perennial interest and importance. As Henry Barclay Swete states, “The Fathers, in the stricter sense of the term, are...

personal disciples of apostles,1 but bishops of churches in which the apostolic tradition was still fresh. Their letters—for like the Apostles, they used the pen only for the purpose of correspondence—offer a first-hand picture of the life of the Christian societies in the age which follows the death of St. John. CLEMENT, the earliest of the three, writes to the Church at Corinth in the name of the sister Church at Rome. He was possibly a freed man of T. Flavius Clemens, who was consul with his cousin,
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