Nicaea Library — web edition
https://honestapologist.com

The texts served by this site are in the public domain or openly licensed.
Each Bible's licence is also shown above its text on the Bible page.

Bibles (unmodified copies of the official eBible.org distributions):
- Public domain: World English Bible (with Deuterocanon; "World English
  Bible" is a trademark of eBible.org, used for an unmodified copy of the
  official text), Berean Standard Bible (dedicated to the public domain
  in 2023), American Standard Version (1901), Douay-Rheims (Challoner
  revision), Young's Literal Translation (1898), Geneva Bible (1599),
  Reina-Valera 1909, and Santa Biblia libre para el mundo.
- King James Version (with Apocrypha): public domain in most of the world,
  including the United States; within the United Kingdom, rights in the
  Authorized Version are vested in the Crown.
- Literal Standard Version: (c) 2020 Covenant Press, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- La Biblia en Espanol Sencillo: (c) 2018, 2019 AudioBiblia.org / Irma Flores,
  CC BY 4.0.
- Palabra de Dios para ti: (c) 2020 Asociacion Biblica Latinoamericana,
  CC BY 4.0.
- Biblica Open Nueva Biblia Viva (2008): (c) 2008 Biblica, Inc., CC BY-SA 4.0.
  Licences: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ and
  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Other texts:
- Ante-Nicene Fathers and Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers (1885-1900), and
  Percival's Seven Ecumenical Councils: public domain; plain-text editions
  from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library (www.ccel.org).
- Augustine (Pusey and Dods translations) and Josephus (Whiston translation):
  public domain, from Project Gutenberg (eBooks 3296, 45304, 45305, 2848,
  2850), licenses retained in the bundled desktop edition's source files.
- The other works in the library (the Reformers, Hus and the Hussites, Bede,
  devotional classics, and the Spanish classics from Wikisource) are public
  domain; each names its edition and source on its page in the library.
- Strong's Greek and Hebrew dictionaries (1890): public domain; digital text
  from the OpenScriptures project (github.com/openscriptures/strongs).
- Cross-references: OpenBible.info (openbible.info/labs/cross-references),
  CC BY 4.0.
- Greek and Hebrew text, word meanings and grammar: STEPBible.org, Tyndale
  House, Cambridge (TAGNT, TAHOT, TEGMC, TEHMC;
  github.com/STEPBible/STEPBible-Data), CC BY 4.0, reformatted for display.
- Berean interlinear tables (bereanbible.com): public domain (2023).
- People and places of the Bible: STEPBible.org TIPNR, Tyndale House,
  Cambridge, CC BY 4.0 (short summaries, family links, coordinates, verses).
- Torrey's New Topical Textbook (1897): public domain, CCEL text.
- Commentaries, all public domain: John Calvin (Calvin Translation Society,
  1844-56) and Matthew Henry (1706-21), CCEL texts; George Leo Haydock (1859),
  transcribed by John Paul Wohlscheid (johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock).
- Catena Aurea of St Thomas Aquinas, Oxford translation (1841-45): public
  domain; Matthew and Mark transcribed by the Christian Classics Ethereal
  Library, Luke and John from the Internet Archive's text of the edition.
- Creeds: public-domain translations from Schaff, The Creeds of Christendom
  (1877) and Percival, NPNF2-14 (1900).
- Glossary, heresies, councils, and timeline notes: original summaries
  written for this project (MIT license).
- Map coastlines: Natural Earth 10m land (public domain,
  naturalearthdata.com), simplified for the web edition.
- Reading plans and the verse-of-the-day list: written for this project
  (MIT license); the verse texts come from the Bibles above.

Fonts: Plus Jakarta Sans (c) 2020 The Plus Jakarta Sans Project Authors and
Literata (c) 2017 The Literata Project Authors, both under the SIL Open Font
License 1.1 (see fonts/OFL-PlusJakartaSans.txt and fonts/OFL-Literata.txt).

The application code (HTML/CSS/JavaScript) is MIT-licensed - see LICENSE.txt.
This site sets no cookies, shows no ads and does no tracking; it keeps only anonymous visit
counts (Cloudflare Web Analytics, which sets no cookies). Fonts and scripts are served from this site.
The one outside resource is Google's sign-in script, loaded only on the Account page so you
can choose to sign in; signed-in readers' data is stored on Cloudflare to sync it. See /privacy.