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The Apostolic Fathers

English translation by Kirsopp Lake

Volume 1:
1 Clement (coming soon)
2 Clement (coming soon)
Ignatius to Polycarp
Polycarp to the Phillipians
Martyrdom of Polycarp (coming soon)
The Didache
Barnabas (coming soon)

Volume II:
Shepherd of Hermas (coming soon)

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17 Dec 2019

People are writing to me from every part of the world to tell me that my 'De libero arbitrio' (The Freedom of the Will, written to refute Luther) has won them over and that they no longer accept what Luther teaches on this point. — Erasmus (Coll. Works of Erasmus, vol. 11, 59)

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14 Dec 2019

Luther’s friends (who were once mine also). . . have deserted me and call me a Pelagian. . . In Flanders I am abused as a Lutheran. In Germany I am cried out against as an anti-Lutheran. — Erasmus to Peter Barbirius, Aug 13, 1521. (Life and Letters of Erasmus, 295)

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14 Dec 2019

Stand firm, like an anvil being struck with a hammer. It is the mark of a great athlete to be bruised, yet still conquer. But especially we must, for God’s sake, patiently bear all things, so that he may also bear with us. — Ignatius to Polycarp, c. AD 110 (Holmes, 2007)

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13 Dec 2019

Martin Luther was quite incensed at being gifted a Zwinglian Bible translation. Luther seems convinced that Zwingli and his followers were going straight to hell as you can see from his correspondence below.

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13 Dec 2019

“Very truly I tell you, whoever obeys my word will never see death.” — Jesus (John 8:51 NIV)

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