Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. 1 (Justin Martyr, Tatian)

The writing on this page was composed, no doubt, in the first place on the original manuscript, and its presence there is explained in another part of this work. It has not since been possible to distinguish it from the rest of the manuscript with which it is now so intimately connected. But the simple and natural air which it breathes in this form and condition, the manner in which it was originally drawn up to facilitate the devotions of its owner, and the interest which attaches to every relic of that apostolic choir as an auxiliary character.

[N.B.—A student delving into the recent literature of the Clementines will also find that the observations in The Athenæum, January 1877, p. 553, as well as Bishop Lightfoot’s S. Clement’s Epistles to the Corinthians (Clement of Rome, p. 223 sq.), and the invaluable edition of Bryennios (Leipsic, 1876), with a critical text and rich prolegomena and notes, cannot be dispensed with by any Patristic Inquirer.—A. C. C.]