The Apostolic Fathers - Moody Publishers

Now with a new foreword by Mark Galli.

A collection of the
earliest known writings of the church, The Apostolic Fathers includes a
sermon and six brief documents: the First andSecondEpistles of Clement,
the Didache, the Epistles of Ignatius, the Epistle of Polycarp, the Epistle about
Polycarp's Martyrdom, and the Shepherd of Hermas.

"There are two ways,
one of life and one of death," begins the Didache, "and between the two
ways there is a great difference." Followers of the way of life today will
find much encouragement of those who first embarked on the path two millennia ago.

The
John Lightfoot (1602-1675) translation was the source used for this edition of Apostolic
Fathers.