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Early Church Fathers - Additional Texts
Edited by Roger Pearse
These English translations are all out of copyright, but were not included in the 38 volume collection of Ante-Nicene, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers. Please take copies and place online elsewhere. In some cases I have felt it necessary to add an introduction to the online text. These are all placed in the public domain also -- copy freely. The texts are listed in chronological order.
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The Western Text of the Acts of the Apostles, translated from Codex Bezae
Polycarp (Ps.)
Fragments from Victor of Capua
Aristides the Philosopher
The Apology
- Preface to the online edition
- ANF Title page
- Introduction
- Translation of the Greek and of the Syriac versions in parallel columns.
- Prefatory matter to the 1891 translation
- Introduction to the 1891 translation
- Translation from the Syriac (1891)
- [Selected] Notes on the Syriac Version (1891)
- Appendix: The remains of the original Greek of the Apology of Aristides by J.Armitage Robinson (1891) [Extracts]
Irenaeus
The Proof of the Apostolic Preaching
Hermias the Philosopher
Derision of Gentile Philosophers
Anonymous
The "Marcionite" prologues to St. Paul's Letters
The "Anti-Marcionite" prologues to the Gospels
Origen
On Prayer
Philocalia
Dionysius of Alexandria
Letters
Methodius of Olympus
On Leprosy
Eusebius Pamphili of Caesarea
Chronicon
- Book 1 - translation from Petermann's modern Latin translation
- Introduction by Robert Bedrosian
- Book 1 - translation direct from Armenian
Commentary on the Psalms
- On Psalm 51 (52) (excerpt)
Contra Hieroclem (Against Hierocles)
Demonstratio Evangelica (The Proof of the Gospel)
De Sollemnitate Paschali (On the celebration of Easter)
Encomium on the Martyrs
The History of the Martyrs in Palestine
Letters
Onomasticon (Concerning the Place Names in Sacred Scripture)
- Introduction (pp.i-xl)
- Translation (pp.1-75)
- Notes (pp.76-252).
- Appendices (pp.253-280)
Praeparatio Evangelica (The Preparation of the Gospel)
Theophania
On the Star [Spurious]
Philostorgius
Epitome of the Ecclesiastical History of Philostorgius, by Photius; with fragments from the Suda.
Eusebius of Emesa
Homilies
St. Ephraim the Syrian (Ephraem Syrus)
St. Ephraim's Prose Refutations of Mani, Marcion and Bardaisan. Transcribed from the Palimpsest B.M. Add. 14623 by the late C. W. MITCHELL, M.A., C.F.
- Introduction to volume 1 (1912)
- Discourse to Hypatius I
- Discourse to Hypatius II
- Discourse to Hypatius III
- Discourse to Hypatius IV
- Discourse to Hypatius V
- Introduction to volume 2 (1921)
- Against Bardaisan's "Domnus"
- Against Marcion I
- Against Marcion II
- Against Marcion III
- Stanzas Against Bardaisan
- On Virginity
- Against Mani
- Introduction by F.C.Burkitt.
Aphrahat (Aphraates)
Demonstrations
Chronography of 354
- Introduction to the online edition
- Part 1: Title page and dedication
- Part 2: Images of the personifications of the cities of Rome, Alexandria, Constantinople and Trier
- Part 3: Images of the emperors and the birthdays of the Caesars
- Part 4: Images of the seven planets with a calendar of the hours
- Part 5: The signs of the zodiac
- Part 6: The Philocalian calendar
- Part 7: Portraits of the emperors
- Part 8: List (fasti) of the consuls to 354 AD
- Part 9: The dates of Easter from 312 AD to 411 AD
- Part 10: List of the prefects of the city of Rome from 254 to 354 AD
- Part 11: Commemoration dates of past popes from 255 to 352 AD
- Part 12: Commemoration dates of the martyrs
- Part 13: Bishops of Rome (The Liberian Catalogue)
- Part 14: The 14 regions of the City
- Part 15: Book of generations
- Part 16: Chronicle of the City of Rome
Eunomius of Cyzicus
The First Apology
Basil the Great
Address to Young Men on the Right Use of Greek Literature
Sermon 13: On holy baptism
Gregory of Nyssa
Life of St. Macrina
Gregory Nazianzen
Orations
Two Invectives Against Julian
Gregory Thaumaturgus
Sermons
Ambrose of Milan
Letters
Pacian of Barcelona
Extant Works
Macarius Magnes
Apocriticus
Asterius of Amasea
Sermons
Chromatius of Aquileia
Sermons on Matthew
Pseudo-Linus
Acts of Linus
Anon.
Passion of St. Saturninus
Epiphanius of Salamis
Weights and Measures
Ps.Hegesippus
On the ruin of the city of Jerusalem
Optatus of Milevis
Against the Donatists
- Preface to the online edition
- Translator's introduction
- Book 1
- Book 2
- Book 3
- Book 4
- Book 5
- Book 6
- Translator's introduction to book 7
- Book 7
- Translator's preface to the appendix
- Appendix 1. The trial of Felix, Bishop of Aptunga.
- Appendix 2. The trial before Zenophilus.
- Appendices 3-16. Letters and rescripts.
John Chrysostom
Four Discourses, chiefly on the parable of the rich man and Lazarus
Against the Jews
Sermons
Severian of Gabala
Sermons on Genesis
Philip of Side
Fragments
Jerome
Biblical Prefaces
- Genesis
- Joshua
- The "Helmeted" introduction to Kings
- Chronicles
- Ezra.
- Ezra. (Tr. Mark DelCogliano).
- Tobit
- Judith
- Judith (Tr. Andrew S. Jacobs)
- Esther
- Jerome's notes to the additions to Esther
- Job
- Psalms (LXX)
- Psalms (Hebrew)
- The books of Solomon
- Isaiah
- Jeremiah
- Ezekiel
- Daniel
- Twelve minor prophets
- Gospels
- Vulgate preface to Paul's letters
Chronicle
Commentary on Daniel
Letters
Augustine
Enchiridion: On Faith, Hope and Love
Possidius
Life of St. Augustine
Theodore of Mopsuestia
Prologue to the Commentary on Acts
Commentary on the Nicene Creed
Commentary on the Lord's Prayer, Baptism and the Eucharist
Marutha of Maiperqat
On the Council of Nicaea
Nestorius
The Bazaar of Heracleides
Two letters to Pope Celestine
Theodoret
Commentary on Romans
Cyril of Alexandria
Five tomes against Nestorius (Adversus Nestorii blasphemias)
That Christ is One (Quod unus sit Christus)
Scholia on the incarnation of the Only-Begotten (Scholia de incarnatione Unigeniti)
Against Diodore of Tarsus and Theodore of Mopsuestia (fragments)
Against the synousiasts (fragments)
Commentary on the Gospel of Luke
- Preface to the online edition
- Translator's Introduction
- Sermons 1-11 (Luke 1:1-3:3:23)
- Sermons 12-25 (Luke 4:1-6:17)
- Sermons 27-38 (Luke 6:20-7:28)
- Sermons 39-46 (Luke 7:31-8:56)
- Sermons 47-56 (Luke 9:1-56)
- Sermons 57-65 (Luke 9:57-10:21)
- Sermons 66-80 (Luke 10:22-11:18)
- Sermons 81-88 (Luke 11:19-12:10)
- Sermons 89-98 (Luke 12:13-13:9)
- Sermons 99-109 (Luke 13:22-16:13)
- Sermons 110-123 (Luke 16:14-18:27)
- Sermons 124-134 (Luke 18:28-20:18)
- Sermons 135-145 (Luke 20:19-22:38)
- Sermons 146-156 (Luke 22:39-24:45)
Commentary on the Gospel of John
Against Julian
Dioscorus of Alexandria
Letters
Palladius
The Lausiac History
Dialogue on the life of St. John Chrysostom
Rabbula
Admonitions to the monks
Salvian
On the Government of God
Sidonius Apollinaris
Letters
Eugippius
Life of St. Severinus
Dionysius the Areopagite
Works
- Preface to the online edition
- Introduction to vol. 1
- Preface to the "Divine Names"
- The Divine Names
- Note on Ignatius
- Preface to the "Mystical Theology"
- The Mystical Theology
- Preface to the "Letters"
- The Letters
- Preface to the "Liturgy"
- The Liturgy
- Objections to genuineness
- Introduction to vol. 2
- The Celestial Hierarchy
- The Ecclesiastical Hierarchy
- Appendix
Joshua the Stylite
Chronicle composed in Syriac in A.D.507
Dionysius Exiguus
Jacob of Serûgh
Homilies
Gildas the Wise
The Ruin of Britain
Fragments of Letters
Penitential
Lorica
Leontius of Byzantium
Against the frauds of the Apollinarists
Philoxenus of Hierapolis
13 Ascetic Discourses
- Title page, preface, contents
- Introduction: The Life of Philoxenus
- Introduction: Various Creeds by Philoxenus, against Nestorius, Mani, Marcion, etc.
- Introduction: List of Works of Philoxenus
- Introduction: The Manuscripts of the Discourses
- Introduction: Summary of the Discourses
- Introduction: Table of manuscripts & List of material omitted from online edition
- Aphraates, On Faith
- Errata
- Discourse 1 -- Prologue
- Discourse 2 -- On Faith
- Discourse 3 -- On Faith
- Discourse 4 -- On Faith: First Discourse on Simplicity
- Discourse 5 -- Second Discourse on Simplicity
- Discourse 6 -- First Discourse on the Fear of God
- Discourse 7 -- Second Discourse on the Fear of God
- Discourse 8 -- First Discourse on Poverty
- Discourse 9 -- Second Discourse on Poverty
- Discourse 10 -- On Gluttony
- Discourse 11 -- On Abstinence
- Discourse 12 -- First Discourse on Fornication
- Discourse 13 -- Second Discourse on Fornication
Three Letters
Life
Evagrius Scholasticus
Ecclesiastical History
Timothy Aelurus
Some patristic testimonia from Irenaeus, Athanasius, and Dionysius of Alexandria
Severus of Antioch
A collection of letters from numerous Syriac manuscripts
Sermons
The Chronicle of Edessa
The Chronicle of Edessa
John of Ephesus
Ecclesiastical History, Third Part
'Zachariah of Mitylene / Zacharias Rhetor'
The Syriac Chronicle
Cosmas Indicopleustes
The Christian Topography
The Chronicle of Arbela
The Chronicle of Arbela
Gregory the Great
Dialogues
The Whitby Life of St. Gregory
- English translation (extracts)
Simeon Stylites
Letters
Hagiographical life: A Translation of the Syriac Text in Bedjan's Acta Martyrum et Sanctorum, Vol. IV.
John of Epiphania
Fragments of the History
Licinian
Letters
Anonymous
Life of Mar Aba
Ananias of Shirak
Autobiography
On Easter
On Christmas
John the Lydian
On the months
Antiochus Strategos
The Capture of Jerusalem by the Persians in 614
Theodore Syncellus
Homily on the siege of Constantinople in 626 AD
Isidore of Seville
Chronicon
John of Nikiu
Chronicle
John Philoponus
On the astrolabe
Severus Sebokht
Description of the astrolabe
On the Constellations
John bar Penkaye
Ktâbâ d-rêš mellê or Summary history of the world
James of Edessa
Continuation of the Chronicle of Eusebius
Letters
Ghewond
History
Timothy I
Apology for Christianity, to the Caliph Al-Mahdi
Anonymous
A Syriac Fragment: Chronicle 754-813AD
Photius of Constantinople
The Bibliotheca or Myriobiblion
- List of all codices
- Preface to the online edition
- Preface to SPCK edition
- Codices 1-165 (500kb). [The remaining parts of Photius are held only on the master site as they are in copyright].
- The "Sic et Non" of Stephanus Gobarus, from codex 232. By Adolf von Harnack.
Agapius of Hierapolis
Universal History
Dionysius Syrus (= Dionysius bar Salibi, = Jacob bar Salibi)
Commentary on Revelation
Other Literature
Miscellaneous
- British Museum ---- Manuscripts from the Egyptian Monasteries (Quarterly Review 77, 1845-6).
- William Cureton's Introduction to the Editio Princeps of the Festal Letters of St. Athanasius (1848)
- A list of all the volumes in the Oxford Movement 'Library of the Fathers' series.
- A list of older volumes in the Patrologia Syriaca and Patrologia Orientalis series, with links to scanned texts.
- J.M.Harden, An Introduction to Ethiopic Christian Literature
- The introduction from a grammar of modern Syriac published in 1856
- Appeals for money for copying mss by the Urmiah library in 1890
- A list of Arabic Christian writers
- A Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in the Library of the Greek Patriarchate of Jerusalem
- How to number the letters of Isidore of Pelusium
Some Late Nestorian Syriac Writers
Spicilegium Syriacum
- Preface to the online edition
- Title page, dedication, note
- Preface
- Bardesan -- Book of the Laws of the Countries / The Dialogue on Fate
- Jacob the Persian Philosopher -- Extract on Bardesan
- Ps.-Melito of Sardis -- Apology
- Syriac fragments of Melito
- Eusebius of Caesarea, Ecclesiastical History (Syriac), book 4 (extract)
- Ambrose, Hypomnemata
- The epistle of Mara, son of Serapion
- Works by Rev. W. Cureton
The Doctrine of Addai
Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles
- Title page, Preface
- The history of John, the son of Zebedee, the apostle and evangelist
- An account of the decease of Saint John, the apostle and evangelist
- The history of Philip, the apostle and evangelist
- The history of Mar Matthew and Mar Andrew, the blessed apostles
- The history of Thecla, the disciple of Paul the apostle
- The acts of Judas Thomas (or, the twin), the apostle
Syriac Miscellanies
Texts from Mt. Sinai
Legends of Eastern Saints, chiefly from Syriac sources -- the Legend of Hilaria
Pionius: Life of Polycarp
Severus of Al'Ashmunein (Hermopolis): History of the Patriarchs of the Coptic Church of Alexandria
Miscellaneous Arabic Christian texts
- John ibn Saba, The Precious Pearl, on ecclesiastical knowledge. (extract)
- Severus of al-Ashmunein, An unpublished fragment of the "Book of the Councils" from Cairo Coptic Museum Ms. Theol. 196, ff.268v-270v
- A first translation of Mingana Ms. Syr. 481, ff.221v-225v (2007) -- pagan prophecies of Christ
- Ms. Syr. 142, ff.48a-61b -- pagan prophecies of Christ
- Gerasimos, Apology (extract) -- another collection of such prophecies
- Abu al-Majdalus, Commentary on the Nicene Creed -- 10th century text which includes pagan prophecies.
- An unpublished Syriac version of the life of Shenouda
Abu'l Barakat
Twenty theological and philosophical treatises edited by Paul Sbath
- Preface to the online edition
- 15. Yahya ibn Adi - On the Truth of the Gospel by Way of Reasoning from Proofs
- 16. Yahya ibn Adi - On the Differences in the Expressions in the Gospels and their Meanings
- 17. Yahya ibn Adi - On our saying "and became incarnate of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary"
- 18. Abu al-Khayr ibn al-Tayyib - Refutation of the Muslims who accuse the Christians of Believing in Three Gods
- 19. Abu al-Faraj `Abdallah ibn al-Tayyib - On Knowledge and Miracles
- 20.1 Hunain ibn Ishaq - On How to Discern the Truth of Religion
Miscellaneous Syriac and Coptic texts
- Ps.John Chrysostom, Encomium on Elijah
- A Fragment of a Coptic Version of Saint Ephraim's Discourse on the Transfiguration of our Lord.
- The Coptic Martyrdom of Isaac of Tiphre, written ca. 399 AD
- Some Apocryphal Psalms in Syriac
- The Apocalypse of Abraham. From a Romanian version.
- The Coptic Apocalypse of Daniel.
- The Apocalypse of Samuel of Kalamoun - introduction
- The Apocalypse of Samuel of Kalamoun - translation
Miscellaneous other texts
APPENDIX
Cicero
The Dream of Scipio (Somnium Scipionis)
Cornelius Nepos
Lives of the Eminent Commanders
Martial
On the public shows of Domitian
Epigrams
Juvenal
Satires
Anonymous
A pagan exorcism text
Justinus
Epitome of the Phillipic History of Pompeius Trogus
Galen
Hippocrates, On the duties of a doctor and Galen's commentary
Herodian
The Roman Histories
Porphyry
- List of works by Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie.
Against the Christians
Sentences (Sententiae ad intelligibilia ducentes)
Introduction to Aristotle's categories of logic (Isagoge)
On abstinence from animal food (De Abstinentia)
On the Cave of the Nymphs (De Antro Nympharum)
On the faculties of the soul (fragment)
Letter to Anebo the Egyptian
Letter to his wife, Marcella (Ad Marcellam)
Life of Pythagoras
On Images
Julian the Apostate
Letters
Epigrams
Orations
Against the Galileans
Libanius
Sixteen Letters to Julian the Apostate
Monody ---- Funeral Oration for Julian the Apostate
Monody ---- For the temple of Apollo at Daphne, destroyed by fire
Monody ---- For Nicomedia, destroyed by an earthquake
Oration 30 ---- On behalf of the temples (Pro Templis)
Eutropius
Abridgment of Roman History / Historiae Romanae Breviarium ab urbe condita
Eunapius
Lives of the philosophers and sophists
Ammianus Marcellinus
Roman History
Anonymous
Origin of the Roman People / Origo Gentis Romanae
Proclus
Hymns
On Motion
Commentary on the Chaldaean Oracles (fragments from Psellus)
Life of Proclus
Zosimus
The New History
Ibn Abi Usaibia
History of Physicians
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