Mathetes

The Apostolic Fathers Mathetes

The Apostolic Fathers and those associated with them in the third generation, are here placed together in a handbook, which, with the inestimable Scriptures, supplies a succinct autobiography of the Spouse of Christ for the first two centuries. No Christian scholar has ever before possessed, in faithful versions of such compact form, a supplement so essential to the right understanding of the New Testament itself. This volume includes: -The Didache -Clement of Rome -Mathetes -Ignatius of antioch -Polycarp of Smyra -Barnabas -The Shepard of Hermas -The martyrdom of Ignatius -The martyrdom of Polycarp -Fragments of Papias