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The writings of the Apostolic Fathers

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Project Gutenberg EPUB edition Clement I, Pope, Hermas, active 2nd century, Ignatius, Saint, Bishop of Antioch, Papias, Saint, Bishop of Hierapolis, Polycarp, Saint, Bishop of Smyrna, Crombie, Frederick, Donaldson, James, Sir, and Roberts, Alexander

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241. Literally, “and having received their prices, fed others.”
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244. Literally, “there shall be to them a fruitful and perfect remembrance, with compassions both towards God and the saints.”
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250. Literally, “err” or “sin.”
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252. Literally, “to be found small and esteemed.”
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255. Junius (Pat. Young), who examined the MS. before it was bound into its present form, stated that a whole leaf was here lost. The next letters that occur are ιπον, which have been supposed to indicate εἶπον or ἔλιπον. Doubtless some passages quoted by the ancients from the Epistle of Clement, and not now found in it, occurred in the portion which has thus been lost.
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257. Literally, “an eternal throne.”
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258. Literally, “from the ages to the ages of ages.”
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259. No title, not even a letter, is preserved in the MS.
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264. Literally, “being full of such darkness in our sight.”
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265. Literally, “having beheld in us much error and destruction.”
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266. Comp. Hos.ii. 23; Rom. iv. 17, ix. 25.
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267. Literally, “willed us from not being to be.”
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269. Some render, “should not cry out, like women in travail.” The text is doubtful.
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270. It has been remarked that the writer here implies he was a Gentile.
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273. Literally, “already perishing.”
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274. Literally, “what is the knowledge which is towards Him.”

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