The Apostolic Fathers
J. B. Lightfoot · 1890 · Before the division · public-domain-translation
14 claims in this dataset rest on this source.
People it attests
- Clement of Rome 1 claim
- Ignatius of Antioch 1 claim
Glosses drawn from it
What else rests on it
5 document receptions · 4 gloss subjects · 2 manuscript witnesses
The critical edition and English translation that still stands behind every discussion of Clement, Ignatius and Polycarp - Greek text, apparatus, and dissertations arguing the case for the letters' authenticity against the 19th-century Tubingen attack, which he largely won. HE ARGUES A POSITION: that the monarchical episcopate developed out of a college of presbyters. His facts, texts and apparatus are not in question.