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Category: Apostolic Fathers

  • Instructions to a Minister – An Ancient Voice Speaks

    V. A bishop must be no accepter of persons; neither revering nor flattering a rich man contrary to what is right, nor overlooking nor domineering over a poor man. For, says God to Moses, “Thou shalt not accept the person of the rich, nor shalt thou pity a poor man in his cause: for the…

  • Another Calvinistic Jewel in the Apostolic Fathers

    CAVEAT: “Calvinistic” is an anachronism. Calvin wasn’t born yet. The proper chronological way to describe the situation is to say that Calvin was being Ignatian — or (better yet) that both Calvin and Ignatius were being Scriptural. As I was concluding my reading of one book of selections the apostolic fathers, I read through the…

  • Gems of Calvinism from the Early Church: Ignatius

    CAVEAT: “Calvinistic” is an anachronism. Calvin wasn’t born yet. The proper chronological way to describe the situation is to say that Calvin was being Ignatian — or (better yet) that both Calvin and Ignatius were being Scriptural. In my reading of the Apostolic Fathers, another gem from the Apostolic Fathers caught my eye, this one…