ante-Nicene
Americanadjective
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I have to acknowledge my obligations to Messrs. Clark, of Edinburgh, for allowing me to make somewhat copious extracts from the writings of Justin in their ante-Nicene Library.
From The Lost Gospel and Its Contents Or, The Author of "Supernatural Religion" Refuted by Himself by Michael Ferrebee Sadler
This list is far from complete; the principal collections of the ante-Nicene fathers include not a few minor and anonymous writers, and the fragments of many others whose works as a whole have perished.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various
Christianity was probably planted in the British Isles during the second century; as to its growth in the ante-Nicene period little is definitely known.
From A Source Book for Ancient Church History by Joseph Cullen Ayer
It was to launch myself on an ocean with currents innumerable; and I was drifted back first to the ante-Nicene history, and then to the Church of Alexandria.
From Apologia Pro Vita Sua by John Henry Newman
Moreover she is certainly wrong in imagining that the ante-Nicene fathers did not as a body teach regeneration by baptism—even Gregory Nazianzen, the most spiritual of many, did, and in the fourth century.
From The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) by Sir Frederic G. (Frederic George) Kenyon
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