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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 183 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DIDACHE .) See also:

Apostolical Constitutions.—For the various collections of these ecclesiastical regulations—the See also:Syriac Didascalia, Ecclesiastical Canons of the See also:Holy Apostles, &c.—see See also:separate See also:article. (c) EPISTLES.—The See also:Abgar Epistles.—These epistles are found in See also:Eusebius (H.E. i. 3), who translated them frdm the Syriac. They are two in number, and purport to be a See also:petition of Abgar Uchomo, See also:king of See also:Edessa, to See also:Christ to visit Edessa, and Christ's See also:answer, promising after his See also:ascension to send one of his disciples, who should " cure thee of thy disease, and give eternal See also:life and See also:peace to thee and all thy See also:people." See also:Lipsius thinks that these letters were manufactured about the See also:year 200. (See See also:Diet. Christ. Biog. iv. 878-881, with the literature there mentioned.) The above See also:correspondence, which appears also in Syriac, is inwoven with the See also:legend of Addai or Thaddaeus. The best See also:critical edition of the See also:Greek See also:text will be found in Lipsius, Acta Apostolorum Apocrypha, 1891, pp. 279-283. (See also ABGAR.) See also:Epistle of See also:Barnabas.—The See also:special See also:object of this epistle was to guard its readers against the danger of relapsing into Judaism. The date is placed by some scholars as See also:early as 70-79, by others as See also:late as the early years of the See also:emperor See also:Hadrian, 117.

The text has been edited by See also:

Hilgenfeld in 1877, Gebhardt and See also:Harnack in 1878, and Funk in 1887 and 1901. In these See also:works will be found full See also:bibliographies. (See further BARNABAS.) Epistle of See also:Clement.—The object of this epistle is the restoration of See also:harmony to the See also:church of See also:Corinth, which had been vexed by See also:internal discussions. The epistle may be safely ascribed to the years 95-96. The writer was in all See also:probability the See also:bishop of See also:Rome of that name. He is named an apostle and his See also:work was reckoned as canonical by Clement of See also:Alexandria (Strom. iv. 17. 105), and as late as the See also:time of Eusebius (H.E. iii. 16) it was still read in some of the churches. Critical See also:editions have been published by Gebhardt and Harnack, Patr. Apost. Op., 1876, and in the smaller See also:form in 1900, Lightfoot2, 1890, Funk2, 1901.

The Syriac version has been edited by Kennet, Epp. of St Clement to the See also:

Corinthians in Syriac, 1899, and the Old Latin version by See also:Morin, S. Clementis Romani ad Corinthios epistulae versio See also:Latina antiquissima, 1894. " Clement's" and Ep. to the Corinthians.—This so-called See also:letter of Clement is not mentioned by any writer before Eusebius (H.E. iii. 38. 4). It is not a letter but really a See also:homily written in Rome about the See also:middle of the 2nd See also:century. The writer is a See also:Gentile. Some of his citations are derived from the See also:Gospel to the Egyptians. Clement's Epistles on Virginity.—These two letters are pre-served only in Syriac which is a See also:translation from the Greek. They are first referred to by See also:Epiphanius and next by See also:Jerome. Critics have assigned them to the middle of the 2nd century. They have been edited by Beelen, See also:Louvain, 1856.

Clement's Epistles to See also:

James.—On these two letters which are found in the Clementine Homilies, see See also:Smith's Dict. of See also:Christian See also:Biography, i. 559, 570, and See also:Lehmann's monograph, See also:Die Clementischen Schriften, See also:Gotha, 1867, in which references will be found to other See also:sources of See also:information. Epistles of See also:Ignatius.—There are two collections of letters bearing the name of Ignatius, who was martyred between 1o5 and 117. The first consists of seven letters addressed by Ignatius to the See also:Ephesians, Magnesians, Trallians, See also:Romans, See also:Philadelphians, Smyrnaeans and to See also:Polycarp. The second collection consists of the preceding extensively interpolated, and six others of See also:Mary to Ignatius, of Ignatius to Mary, to the Tarsians, Antiochians, See also:Philippians and See also:Hero, a See also:deacon of See also:Antioch. The latter collection is a pseudepigraph written in the 4th century or the beginning of the 5th. The authenticity of the first collection also has been denied, but the See also:evidence appears to be against this contention. The literature is overwhelming in its extent. See Zahn, Patr. A See also:post. Op., 1876; Funk2, Die apostol. Voter, 1901; Lightfoot2, Apostolic Fathers, 1889.

Epistle of Polycarp.—The genuineness of this epistle stands or falls with that of the Ignatian epistles. See article in Smith's See also:

Dictionary of Christian Biography, iv. 423-431; See also:Lightfoot, A postolic Fathers, 1. 629-702; also POLYCARP. Pauline Epistles to the Laodiceans and the Alexandrians.—The first of these is found only in Latin. This, according to Lightfoot (see Colossians8, 272-298) and Zahn, is a translation from the Greek. Such an epistle is mentioned in the Muratorian See also:canon. See Zahn, op. cit. ii. 566-585. The Epistle to the Alexandrians is mentioned only in the Muratorian canon (see Zahn ii. 586-592). For the Third Epistle of Paid to the Corinthians, and Epistle from the Corinthians to See also:Paul, see under " Acts of Paul " above.

(R. H.

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