Origen's Commentaries on the Gospels of John and Matthew, Tatian's Diatessaron (the earliest harmony of the four Gospels), the Apology of Aristides, and texts recovered in the nineteenth century such as the Gospel of Peter.
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From the opening: Introduction
The important fragment of which Mr. J. Armitage Robinson's translation here follows was discovered by the French Archæological Mission, Cairo, in a grave (supposed to be a monk's) in an ancient cemetery at Akhmîm (Panopolis), in Upper Egypt, in 1886. It was published in 1892 under the care of M. Bouriant in vol. ix., fasc. i., of the Memoirs of the French Archæological Mission at Cairo. The same parchment which contained this fragment also contained a fragment of the Revelation of Peter and a fragment of the Book of Enoch in Greek. The parchment codex is assigned to a date between the eighth and the twelfth century.
Before this discovery the following is all that was known of the Gospel of Peter: 1. Serapion, Bishop of Antioch 190-203, writing to the church at Rhossus, says (Eusebius, H. E., vi., 12, 2): "We, brethren, receive Peter and the other Apostles even as Christ; but the writings that go falsely by their names we, in our experience, reject, knowing that such things as these we never received. When I was with you I supposed you all to be attached to the right faith; and so without going through the gospel put forward under Peter's name, I said, If this is all that makes your petty quarrel, why then let it be read.' But now that I have learned from information given me that their mind was lurking in some hole of heresy, I will make a point of coming to you again: so, brethren, expect me speedily. Knowing then, brethren, of what kind of heresy was Marcion--[Here follows a sentence where the text is faulty.]...From others who used this very gospel--I mean from the successors of those who started it, whom we call Docetæ; for most of its ideas are of their school--from them, I say, I borrowed it, and was able to go through it, and to find that most of it belonged to the right teaching of the Saviour, but some things were additions." From this we learn that a Gospel of Peter was in use in the church of Rhossus in the end of the second century, but that controversy had arisen as to its character, which, on a careful examination, Serapion condemned.
2. Origen ( 253 a.d.), in commenting on Matthew x. 17, says: "But, proceeding on the tradition that is recorded in the Gospel according to Peter or in the Book of James, they say that there are certain brothers of Jesus, the sons of Joseph by a former wife, who lived with him before Mary."
Contents (102 sections)
- About this edition
- Ante-Nicene Fathers
- Preface
- Introduction and Synoptical TAble
- Introduction
- Chapters XXVIII–XX
- Introduction
- Introductory Notes
- Section II
- Section IV
- Section VI
- Section VIII
- Section IX
- Section XI
- Section XII
- Section XIV
- Section XVI
- Section XVII
- Section XIX
- Section XXI
- Section XXIII
- Section XXIV
- Section XXVI
- Section XXVIII
- Section XXX
- Section XXXI
- Section XXXIII
- Section XXXIV
- Section XXXVI
- Section XXXVIII
- Section XL
- Section XLI
- Section XLII
- Section XLIV
- Section XLVI
- Section XLVII
- Section XLIX
- Section LI
- Section LII
- Section LIII
- Section LIV
- Section LV
- Introduction
- Introduction
- Introduction (continued)
- Introduction
- Introduction
- Introduction
- Introduction (continued)
- Introduction
- Introduction (continued)
- Introduction
- Introductory Notice to 1st Clement
- Chapters I–VI
- Chapters VII–XII
- Chapters XIII–XVIII
- Chapters XIX–XXV
- Chapters XXVI–XXXIII
- Chapters XXXIV–XXXIX
- Chapters XL–XLV
- Chapters XLVI–LI
- Chapters LII–LVII
- Chapters LVIII–LXV
- Introductory Notice
- Chapters I–VI
- Chapters VII–XIII
- Chapters XIV–XX
- Introduction
- Introduction (continued)
- Introduction
- Epistle to Gregory
- Introduction
- Letter of Origen to Gregory
- Book I
- Book I (continued)
- Book I (continued)
- Book II
- Book II (continued)
- Book II (continued)
- Book II (continued)
- Book II (continued)
- Book II (continued)
- Book II (continued)
- Book II (continued)
- Book II (continued)
- Book II (continued)
- Introduction
- Book II
- Book X
- Book X (continued)
- Book XI
- Book XI (continued)
- Book XII
- Book XII (continued)
- Book XII (continued)
- Book XIII
- Book XIII (continued)
- Book XIII (continued)
- Book XIV
- Book XIV (continued)
- Book XIV (continued)
- Book XIV (continued)
How to cite it
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- Tatian, Aristides, Origen, and others. Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. 9: The Gospel of Peter, Tatian's Diatessaron, the Apology of Aristides, and Origen's Commentaries on John and Matthew. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 9, 1896. https://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf09
- MLA
- Tatian, Aristides, Origen, and others. Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. 9: The Gospel of Peter, Tatian's Diatessaron, the Apology of Aristides, and Origen's Commentaries on John and Matthew. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 9, 1896. https://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf09
- APA
- Tatian, Aristides, Origen, and others (1896). Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. 9: The Gospel of Peter, Tatian's Diatessaron, the Apology of Aristides, and Origen's Commentaries on John and Matthew. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 9. https://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf09
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