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Fathers is a free public library: a topic map of ante-Nicene teaching, and whole works in edition order.

Works online today include Origen’s On Prayer and Exhortation to Martyrdom, and Julian of Eclanum’s surviving arguments (To Florus and related fragments). Julian is early fifth century — labeled on those pages — not ante-Nicene.

English is newly prepared for study from the stated editions. It is not a complete critical edition and not a substitute for the Greek or Latin. Each work page states that briefly in its intro.

Topics and works cross-link: each treatise points to related dogmatic topics; topic pages list related treatises; author hubs gather both doors.

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