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But to him who directs his eye to salvation and desires it, and asks with boldness and vehemence for its bestowal, the good Father who is in heaven will give the true purification and the changeless life. To whom, by His Son Jesus Christ, the Lord of the living and dead, and by the Holy Spirit, be glory, honour, power, eternal majesty, both now and ever, from generation to generation, and from eternity to eternity.

Irenæus - Against Heresies ✅ and fragments from lost writings ✅

On to vol 2: Hermas, Tatian, Athenagoras, Theophilus, Clement of Alexandria

Dialogue with Trypho ✅

in Dialogue with Trypho — “For Christ is King, and Priest, and God, and Lord, and angel, and man, and captain, and stone, and a Son born, and first made subject to suffering, then returning to heaven, and again coming with glory, and He is preached as having the everlasting kingdom: so I prove from all the Scriptures.”

Second Apology of Justin Martyr ✅

First Apology Justin Martyr ✅

‘Epistle of Barnabas’ ✅, Fragments of Papias ✅

On Ignatius - various epistles, Syriac version, spurious epistles ✅ From the intro… “among the scholars” not even the shorter letters could be regarded “as absolutely free from interpolations, or as of undoubted certainty.”

1 Epistle Clement, Epistle of Mathetes do Diognetus, Epistle of Polycarp to the Philippians, Polycarp Martyrdom ✅

“…we, too, being called by His will in Christ Jesus, are not justified by ourselves, nor by our own wisdom, or under-standing, or godliness, or works which we have wrought in holiness of heart; but by that faith through which, from the beginning, Almighty God has justified…”

extraordinary hyped to start reading these