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  1 Pref |          it. This is an aspect of early Christianity too often forgotten.~
  2 Pref |         in this and every book on early Christian literature.~And
  3 Pref |          helps in the recovery of early Christian literature. For
  4 Pref |           to fill the gaps in our early Christian library. And certainly
  5 Pref |          the New Testament alone. Early Christian literature is
  6 Pref |           of graduate students of early Christian literature there,
  7 Pref |           chapter on the works of early Christian literature that
  8  1   |                                   Early Christian Literature.~ ~
  9  1,1 |   imminent return but also to the early Christian belief that the
 10  1,1 |     supplemented. Furthermore, in early times the teaching of Jesus,
 11  1,2 |        work” — on the part of any early Christian writer? Sometimes
 12  1,4 |         small degree a history of early Christian literature as
 13  1,4 |           hands of the student of early Christian literature than
 14  1,4 |        the Apostolic Fathers, the early Greek apologists, and the
 15  1,6 |         set powerfully before the early Church; and Revelation and
 16  1,6 |         was the conviction of the early church that the acceptance
 17  2,1 |       background of all the other early Christian letters, particularly
 18  2,2 |        but it was recognized very early as the work of Clement,
 19  2,2 |          that it passed into some early New Testaments, such as
 20  2,3 |           the best-known books of early Christian literature — until
 21  2,3 |          its wide currency in the early period, and the fact that
 22  2,3 |      Coptic versions shows at how early a date these translations
 23  2,4 |           Greek edition, composed early in the second century, perhaps
 24  2,5 |              Ignatius of Antioch.~Early in the second century a
 25  2,6 |        the one letter was written early rather than late. It is
 26  2,7 |           therefore, known in the early church in at least four
 27  2,8 |           serious problem for the early Church for almost a century
 28  2,9 |      through the Twelve Apostles, early in the second century, and
 29  2,10|          The Martyrdom of Justin.~Early Christians were constantly
 30  2,11|           years between Ignatius, early in the second century, and
 31  2,11|       played an important part in early Christian history in keeping
 32  2,13|         History 1. 13). They were early embellished with the story
 33  2,14|    actually characteristic of the early Egyptian liturgy, the origins
 34  3   |         of the first century, one early Christian writer made use
 35  3   |         of the free spirit of the early Christian prophets that
 36  3   |         influence of Paul and the early gospels, and even of the
 37  3   |     evident sincerity gave it its early influence, which reached
 38  3   |        the first century, or very early in the second. Since the
 39  3   |        its way into more than one early form of the New Testament
 40  3   |           an idea familiar to the early church from the Hebrew prophets
 41  3   |        say; indeed, we meet it as early as the Odyssey of Homer,
 42  3   |   Prophetic Extracts 41:2; 48:1). Early in the third century it
 43  3   |          the Revelation of Peter. Early in the fourth century Methodius
 44  3   |             Macarius of Magnesia, early in the fifth century, mentions
 45  3   |  mentioned by this long series of early Christian writers, the book
 46  3   |           Oracles, late second or early third century (2:90-338),
 47  3   |       complete Greek text of this early apocalypse would be a great
 48  3   |        great boon to the study of early Christian literature.~ The
 49  3   |       though with disapproval, as early as Heraclitus of Ephesus (
 50  3   | Heraclitus of Ephesus (500 B.C.). Early writers knew of but one
 51  4,2 |          them.~ The idea that any early Christian anywhere might
 52  4,3 |           apocryphal gospels.~ As early as about A.D. 140 some of
 53  4,4 |        quotations made from it by early Christian writers and from
 54  4,4 |          flourished in Asia Minor early in the second century, “
 55  4,4 |           have begun to disappear early in the fourth century, for
 56  4,5 |     described led many Christians early in the second century to
 57  4,5 |         Matthew I3:55). Eusebius, early in the fourth century (A.
 58  4,5 |  Theodoret, a Mesopotamian bishop early in the fifth century, refers
 59  4,6 |          new gospels mentioned by early Christian writers. One would
 60  4,6 |        circulation in Egypt at so early a date-although we must
 61  4,10|           forth an account of the early life of the Virgin Mary
 62  4,10|           to the notion that even early copyists found the book
 63  4,10|         this time and probably as early as the late second century.~
 64  4,11|        Testament collection at an early date.~ ~
 65  5,1 |           Gospels seemed to their early readers to leave gaps in
 66  5,2 |           it. Hippolytus at Rome, early in the third century, shows
 67  5,4 |          may have been written as early as A.D. 189, quotes some
 68  5,5 |           been connected with the early history of the Church of
 69  5,5 |         for some Christian writer early in the third century (A.D.
 70  5,5 |        and was widely held in the early centuries. That there was
 71  5,6 |              The Acts of Thomas.~ Early in the third century some
 72  5,6 |        had reached southern India early in the third century, and
 73  5,9 |         Thomas, and Andrew-in the early years of the fourth century
 74  6   |  impression about the life of the early Christian communities, although
 75  6,1 |      Nothing like a collection of early Christian hymns seemed to
 76  6,1 |        also a few hymns among the early Gnostic remains; we may
 77  6,2 |      Another prominent feature of early Christian worship was the
 78  6,3 |          at Hierapolis in Phrygia early in the second century. Papias
 79  6,3 |          Papias that we learn the early Christian tradition about
 80  6,3 |         ninth century. Of all the early Christian books now lost,
 81  7,1 |           second century, or very early in it, the Preaching of
 82  7,2 |        Apology of Quadratus.~ The early Christians were indeed in
 83  7,2 |           state recognition until early in the fourth century. Christian
 84  7,2 |           was made in Egypt, very early in the second century, in
 85  7,3 |            give a fine picture of early Christian practices and
 86  7,3 |          fragment show; it passed early into Syriac and later into
 87  7,4 |       much toward the recovery of early Christian apologetic.~ ~ ~
 88  8,1 |          Justin Martyr.~ Both the early forms of apologetic, the
 89  8,1 |        account (Apology 65-67) of early Christian worship as practiced
 90  8,1 |         is probably a work of the early years of the third century.~
 91  8,1 |        its date, but it may be as early as the closing years of
 92  8,2 |        late second century or the early third.~ ~
 93  8,3 |           of it, written probably early in the third century, was
 94  8,3 | substantial parts at least of the early Greek or Syriac forms of
 95  9,1 |        the Passover, in the usual early Christian way, from Paul
 96  9,1 |           picture of one phase of early Christian literature, the
 97  9,2 |   Christian antiquity; Methodius, early in the fourth century, is
 98  9,2 |           practically a corpus of early Christian apologies; it
 99  9,2 |     preserved in the three copies early made from it), Eusebius,
100 10,2 |         largely dependent upon an early Latin translation of it,
101 10,2 |     written in the late second or early third century, so that it
102 10,3 |        greatly serve the study of early Christian literature to
103 10,4 |  difficult to name a lost book of early Christian literature that
104 12,1 |          not only for showing one early Christian publishing house
105 12,2 |          part of the Bible of the early church. He knew it was a
106 12,2 |        the Saracens took Caesarea early in the seventh century (
107 12,3 |    valuable observations found in early writers. These began to
108 12,3 |       These began to be made very early, and by A.D. 500, in the
109 12,5 |      characterized as the peak of early Christian apologetic. Against
110 12,6 |     writer was not notable in the early part of his work at Alexandria,
111 12,6 |           48), the masterpiece of early Christian apologetic.~ ~
112 12,7 |         this kind of reporting in early Christianity.[74]~ Other
113 13,2 |         as much as three days, as early as 237, the statue can hardly
114 13,3 |          the original Greek or in early versions, the most extended
115 13,4 |         was really written by the early heretic Cerinthus.[81]~
116 13,6 |           was as a chronicler. As early as A.D. 222-23 he had written
117 13,9 |         for the Paschal Chronicle early in the seventh century,
118 13,9 |           the Peisistratidae, the early editors of Homer, who had
119 13,10|     active and influential in the early church: Dionysius, bishop
120 13,11|           among the lost works of early Christian literature not
121 13,15|     appeared about 270) and as an early critic of some of Origen'
122 14,2 |        visited Athens and Rome in early life, studying to be a lawyer
123 14,5 | flourished late in the second and early in the third century and
124 14,6 |       which may have been written early in life and possibly even
125 14,6 |     powerful personalities of the early church, whose works have
126 14,7 |         91]~ Tertullian also knew early Christian literature very
127 14,9 |           problem in the field of early Christian literature has
128 14,12|     trouble at Carthage, that is, early in A.D. 251. The one On
129 14,12|      probably late in A.D. 251 or early in 252.~ The seventh, On
130 14,12|        acerbities. It was written early in A.D. 256.~ The tenth,
131 14,13|      after his death, probably as early as 259, by his deacon Pontius.
132 14,13|          1885 (though composed as early as A.D. 359), includes also
133 14,13|       chronological work composed early in A.D. 243 to correct Hippolytus,
134 14,16|   probably before 250, perhaps as early as 245, In Praise of Mnrtyrdonz
135 14,16|     composed, about A.D. 359.~ As early as the time of Rufinus (
136 14,17|          ever been found, written early in the ninth century, but
137 14,18|           his, probably from this early period, and now lost, was
138 14,18|        these, which were probably early gathered into a collection,
139 15   |                      Eusebius and Early Christian Literature.~The
140 15   |        New Testament and the Old, early Christian literature consists
141 15,1 |          an Oxford papyrus of the early fourth century gives a partly
142 15,2 |          as large a collection of early Christian literature as
143 15,2 |         collection of acts of the early martyrs (iv. is). In addition,
144 15,3 |        which is more a history of early Christian literature than
145 15,3 |       Josephus (iii. 9).~ For the early church Eusebius could use
146 15,3 |         chief authorities for the early period-in “the first succession
147 15,4 |          of our information about early Christian literature to
148 15,4 |           be found.~ The study of early Christian literature has
149 16   |                 The Lost Books of Early Christian Literature.~With
150 16   |       reporting the tragic losses early Christian literature has
151 16   |       Christian belief arose very early and were anticipated among