Early church writings

Letters, apologies, sermons, and treatises of the early church, in the original Greek or Latin beside a Claude translation. Every passage shows the edition and column it comes from and a footnote you can copy.

See where the writers lived on the map of early church writers, or when they wrote on the timeline of early church writings.

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Works

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Extrabiblical texts

Texts outside the 66 books of the Protestant Bible. A bracket shows which other churches include a book in their Old Testament canon: RC = Roman Catholic, EO = Eastern Orthodox, ETH = Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo.

Early Christian writings cited by later ones

Some of these were read as Scripture in some early churches (for example, Hermas and Barnabas are bound with the New Testament in Codex Sinaiticus); their pages say so.