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The Early Church Fathers in light of Acts 20:29,30 - This essay examines the departure from Paul's doctrine by the Early Church Fathers (also called Apostolic Fathers), in light of Paul's warning to the Ephesian Elders in Acts 20:29,30.
The New Testament in the Apostolic Fathers - Greek New Testament quotes and allusions found in the Apostolic Fathers. Presented in parallel columns. Oxford Society of Historical Theology, 1905. (DjVu, PDF, TXT).
The Shepherd of Hermas - ASCII e-text of the Lightfoot translation.
Apostolic Fathers, The - Christian writers of the first and second centuries who are known, or are considered, to have had personal relations with some of the Apostles, or to have been so influenced by them that their writings may be held as echoes of genuine Apostolic teaching.
The Didache - Etext, translated by J. B. Lightfoot.
Ante-Nicene Fathers: Didache - Translator's preface, introduction, and notes.
The Didache - Etext of Lightfoot / Harmer translation.
The Didache - Etext, translated by Charles H. Hoole.
Didache - Brief Introduction.
Catholic Encyclopedia: Didache - Introductory article.

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Apostolic Fathers - The Apostolic Fathers are a small collection of Christian authors who lived and wrote in the second half of the 1st century and the first half of the 2nd century and who are acknowledged as leaders in the early church, but whose writings were not included in the New Testament ...
White Fathers - The missionary society known as "White Fathers" (Pères Blancs in French), after their dress, is a Roman Catholic Society of Apostolic Life founded in 1868 by the first Archbishop of Algiers, later Cardinal Lavigerie, as the Missionaries of Our Lady of Africa of Algeria, and is also now known as the Society of the Missionaries of Africa. Members of the society use the post-nominal initials M.
Maranatha (disambiguation) - Maranatha is an Aramaic (Syriac, see also Aramaic of Jesus) phrase occurring once only in the New Testament and also in the Didache which is part of the Apostolic Fathers collection.
Martyrdom of Polycarp - The Martyrdom of Polycarp is one of the works of the Apostolic Fathers, and as such is one of the very few genuine such writings from the actual age of the persecutions. The work details Polycarp's death at the age of 86 years old, at the hands of the Romans, in the second century AD.
Maranatha - Maranatha is an Aramaic (Syriac, see also Aramaic of Jesus) phrase occurring once only in the New Testament and also in the Didache which is part of the Apostolic Fathers collection. It is transliterated into Greek letters rather than translated, and is found at the end of Paul's First Epistle to the Corinthians () as a farewell.