Product Description
The Apostolic Fathers is an important collection of writings revered by early Christians but not included in the final canon of the New Testament. Here a leading expert on these texts offers an authoritative contemporary translation, in the tradition of the magisterial Lightfoot version but thoroughly up-to-date. The third edition features numerous changes, including carefully revised translations and a new, more user-friendly design. The introduction, notes, and bibliographies have been freshly revised as well.

	First Clement	36
	Second Clement	73
	The letters of Ignatius	87
	To the Ephesians	96
	To the Magnesians	103
	To the Trallians	108
	To the Romans	112
	To the Philadelphians	117
	To the Smyrnaeans	121
	To Polycarp	126
	The letter of Polycarp to the Philippians	130
	The martyrdom of Polycarp	142
	The Didache	157
	The epistle of Barnabas	172
	The shepherd of Hermas	199
	Visions	206
	Commandments	224
	Parables	242
	The epistle to Diognetus	288
	Fragments of Papias	302
	Additional fragments from Irenaeus	320