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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...

CHAPTER II THE FATHERS OF THE FIRST TWO CENTURIES 1. THE APOSTOLIC FATHERS IN 1672 J. B. Cotelier, a Doctor of the Sorbonne, published at Paris a collection of the earliest post-Apostolic writings under the title Patres aevi apostolici, sive SS. Patrum qui temporibus apostolicis floruerunt … opera. The work included Barnabas, Clement of Rome, Hermas, Ignatius, and Polycarp; later editors have added to the series the Teaching of the Apostles, the Letter to Diognetus, and the fragments of certain lost
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