Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers — First Series Vol. 06 — Section 342
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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers First Series Vol. 6
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16. For when they made up their minds to represent Christ to have written in such strain as that to His disciples, they bethought themselves of those of His followers who might best be taken for the persons to whom Christ might most readily be believed to have written, as the individuals who had kept by Him on the most familiar terms of friendship. And so Peter and Paul occurred to them, I believe, just because in many places they chanced to see these two apostles represented in pictures as both in company with Him. [550] For Rome, in a specially honourable and solemn manner, [551] com…
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