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The Ante-Nicene Christian Library (ANCL)

Translations of the Writings of the Fathers Down to A.D. 325.

This 24 volume set was published from 1867-1885. The editors were Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson. All of the material here was reissued in the ANF collection but the translations in that collection were sometimes updated from the originals in the ANCL.

Some of the volumes have been converted to text/HTML and are available at Wikisource.

Volumes:

  1. The Apostolic Fathers
  2. Justin Martyr and Athenagoras
  3. Tatian, Theophilus, and the Clementine Recognitions
  4. Clement of Alexandria: Vol.I
  5. Irenaeus: Vol.I
  6. Hippolytus, Bishop of Rome: Vol.I
  7. Tertullianus Against Marcion
  8. The Writings of Cyprian
  9. Irenaeus,Vol. II—Hippolytus: Vol. II—Fragments of Third Century
  10. The Writings of Origen
  11. The Writings of Tertullian: Vol. I
  12. Clement of Alexandria: Vol. II
  13. The Writings of Cyprian, Vol. II & The Passion of Perpetua and Felicitas, Novatian, Minucius Felix
  14. The Writings of Methodius Etc
  15. The Writings of Tertullian: Vol.II
  16. Apocryphal Gospels, Acts, and Revelations
  17. The Clementine Homilies, The Apostolical Constitutions
  18. The Writings of Tertullian: Vol.III with the Extant Works of Victorinus and Commodianus
  19. The Seven Books of Arnobius Adversus Gentes
  20. The Writings of Gregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius of Alexandria, and Archelaus
  21. The Works of Lactantius: Vol.I
  22. The Works of Lactantius: Vol.II Together With The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs and Fragments of the Second and Third Centuries
  23. Origen Contra Celsum
  24. Early Liturgies and Other Documents

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