Ante-Nicene Fathers

The Ante-Nicene Fathers: The Writings of the Fathers down to A.D. 325 (1885)
Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson (original translators and editors);
Arthur Cleveland Coxe (editor of American edition, unauthorized; and author of annotations, notes, and introductions);
Philip Schaff (also credited as editor);
et al.

The series was originally created by the Presbyterian publishing house of T. & T. Clark in Edinburgh as the Ante-Nicene Christian Library and published serially from 1867 to 1885. The volumes were translated and edited by Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson.
In 1885 a U.S. firm, the Christian Literature Company, began to issue the volumes in a reorganised form, edited by A. Cleveland Coxe. This was in fact piracy of the ANCL, and treated as such by T. &. T. Clark at the time. However there was little recognition of overseas copyright in the USA at this date, and Clark's were obliged to accept the situation. Coxe gave his series the title The Ante-Nicene Fathers.
This collection was followed by the collections Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series I and Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II.

Volume I – The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
Volume II – Fathers of the Second Century
Volume III – Latin Christianity: Its Founder, Tertullian
Volume IV – The Fathers of the Third Century
Volume V – The Fathers of the Third Century
Volume VI – The Fathers of the Third Century
Volume VII – The Fathers of the Third and Fourth Centuries
Volume VIII – The Fathers of the Third and Fourth Centuries
Volume IX – Recently Discovered Additions to Early Christian Literature; Commentaries of Origen
Volume X – Bibliographic Synopsis; General Index [not included]

This work was published before January 1, 1928, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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