apostolic fathers in English

noun
1
the Christian leaders immediately succeeding the Apostles.
Second, as he indicates, the total extant works of the Apostolic Fathers fits ‘a volume about the same size as the New Testament‘!

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1. Some Apostolic Fathers, including Clement, referred to myth, mystic ideas, and philosophy in their writings

2. The Apostolic Fathers is an important collection of writings revered by early Christians but not included in the final canon of the New Testament

3. 1737, William Wake, Genuine Epistles of the Apostolic Fathers Let us run in the straight road the race that is inCorruptible··(historical) One of an ancient religious sect of Alexandria, whose