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Ante-Nicene Fathers — Vol. 02 — CCEL UTF-8 text — Section 471

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Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. 2

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To the meagre facts of his biography, which appear below, there is nothing to be added; [694] and I shall restrain my disposition to be a commentator, within the limits of scanty notations. In the notes to Tatian and Theophilus, I have made the student acquainted with that useful addition to his treatise on Justin Martyr, in which the able and judicious Bishop Kaye harmonizes those authors with Justin. The same harmony enfolds the works of Athenagoras, [695] and thus affords a synopsis of Christian teaching under the Antonines; in which precision of theological language is yet unattain…
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Christian Classics Ethereal Library — ANF02 UTF-8 text
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