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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...

of Egypt and Babylonia; it has comparatively little sympathy with the study of Christian antiquity. Unhappily this neglect of the Fathers is not limited to the laity. Times are changed since George Herbert wrote: “The country parson hath read the Fathers also and the Schoolmen and the later writers, or a good proportion of all.”1 Multiplied engagements forbid the wider reading which once was possible; even the professed student is compelled by the exacting claims of every department of knowledge
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