The Faith Received Library

The Ante-Nicene Fathers

45 works from 17 writers of the first three centuries, earliest first. Every one reads in full, free, with no account.

Ignatius of Antioch

Theophilus of Antioch

Perpetua, Saturus, and an anonymous editor

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The Faith Received

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