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The Didache
Ignatius of Antioch
Anonymous (2 Clement)
Letter to Diognetus
Polycarp of Smyrna
Church of Smyrna
Acts of the Martyrs
- Acts of Cyprian7 sections
- Disputation of Achatius7 sections
- Letter of the Churches of Lyons and Vienne13 sections
- Passion of Irenaeus, Bishop of Sirmium4 sections
- The Martyrdom of Conon the Gardener6 sections
- The Martyrdom of Justin and His Companions5 sections
- The Martyrdom of Maximus3 sections
- The Passion of Marian and James13 sections
- The Passion of Montanus and Lucius10 sections
Dionysius of Corinth
Athenagoras
Polycrates of Ephesus
Minucius Felix
Irenaeus of Lyons
Passion of Perpetua and Felicity
Serapion of Antioch
Clement of Alexandria
Tertullian
Julius Africanus
Novatian
Origen of Alexandria
- Commentary on the Song of Songs, Book IV20 sections
- Dialogue with Heraclides28 sections
- Excerpts on the Psalms16 sections
- Exhortation to Martyrdom52 sections
- Exposition on Proverbs28 sections
- Fragment from the Commentary on Hosea4 sections
- Fragment from the Homilies on the Acts of the Apostles4 sections
- Fragments on 1 Corinthians40 sections
- Fragments on 1 Samuel4 sections
- Fragments on Ephesians28 sections
- Fragments on Lamentations118 sections
- Fragments on Proverbs8 sections
- Fragments on the New Testament8 sections
- Fragments on the Psalms99 sections
- From the Homilies on the Epistle to the Hebrews4 sections
- Homilies on Jeremiah155 sections
- Homilies on Job12 sections
- Homilies on the Song of Songs, Homily II13 sections
- Homily on Saul and the Medium of Endor10 sections
- Notes on Exodus4 sections
- Notes on Genesis6 sections
- Notes on Job16 sections
- Notes on Joshua3 sections
- Notes on Judges2 sections
- Notes on Leviticus5 sections
- Notes on Numbers6 sections
- On Pascha149 sections
- On Prayer34 sections
- On Ruth3 sections
- On the Resurrection4 sections
- Selections on Job8 sections
- Selections on Judges7 sections
Cyprian of Carthage
Gregory Thaumaturgus
- Canonical Letter11 sections
- Declaration of Faith1 section
- Fragment on Matthew4 sections
- Fragments on Jeremiah4 sections
- On the Soul, to Tatian8 sections
- Paraphrase of Ecclesiastes27 sections
- Sentences4 sections
- Sermon on All Saints3 sections
- Thanksgiving Address to Origen27 sections
- That There is No Idol in the World1 section
- Twelve Chapters on the Faith12 sections
Methodius of Olympus
Eustathius of Antioch
- Address to Emperor Constantine4 sections
- Christological Homily on Lazarus8 sections
- Commentary on a Psalm4 sections
- Commentary on Psalm 923 sections
- Commentary on the Six Days of Creation32 sections
- On Creation in Genesis4 sections
- On Ecclesiastes4 sections
- On Faith against the Arians4 sections
- On Joseph4 sections
- On Melchizedek4 sections
- On the Inscription of the Titles4 sections
- On the Soul against the Arians4 sections
- On the Soul against the Philosophers4 sections
- Oration on the Titles of the Songs of Ascents4 sections
- Oration on “The Lord Created Me”4 sections
- Orations against the Arians4 sections
- Various Fragments4 sections
Eusebius of Caesarea
Theodore of Heraclea
Eusebius of Emesa
Athanasius of Alexandria
Marcellus of Ancyra
Basil of Caesarea
- Exhortation to Holy Baptism8 sections
- Homily against Drunkards7 sections
- Homily in Time of Famine and Drought9 sections
- Homily on Envy6 sections
- Homily on Mercy and Judgment3 sections
- Homily on Not Clinging to Worldly Things10 sections
- Homily on Psalm 1155 sections
- Homily on Thanksgiving7 sections
- Homily on the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste6 sections
- Homily on the Holy Spirit4 sections
- Homily on the Martyr Barlaam2 sections
- Homily on “In the Beginning Was the Word”4 sections
- Homily to the Rich9 sections
- Second Homily on Psalm 284 sections
Cyril of Jerusalem
Apollinaris of Laodicea
Diodorus of Tarsus
Nemesius of Emesa
Amphilochius of Iconium
- Against the Heretics20 sections
- On Holy Saturday4 sections
- On Lazarus4 sections
- On the Meeting of the Lord4 sections
- On the Nativity of the Lord4 sections
- On the Sinful Woman8 sections
- On Zacchaeus4 sections
- On “Father”8 sections
- On “It Is Not Possible”4 sections
- Oration on the Resurrection of the Lord4 sections
- Synodical Letter4 sections
- Verses to Seleucus4 sections
Didymus the Blind
- Against the Manichees8 sections
- Commentary on Ecclesiastes64 sections
- Commentary on Genesis through Ruth4 sections
- Commentary on Job96 sections
- Commentary on the Psalms224 sections
- Commentary on Zechariah156 sections
- Fragment on Hebrews3 sections
- Fragments on 2 Corinthians16 sections
- Fragments on John4 sections
- Fragments on Proverbs8 sections
- Fragments on the Psalms256 sections
- Notes on the Catholic Epistles12 sections
- On Genesis100 sections
- On the Trinity76 sections
Evagrius Ponticus
- Exposition on Proverbs24 sections
- Instruction to Monks4 sections
- Notes on Ecclesiastes12 sections
- Notes on Proverbs28 sections
- On Evil Thoughts12 sections
- On Teachers and Disciples4 sections
- On the Eight Evil Spirits8 sections
- On the Vices Opposed to the Virtues4 sections
- Reasons of the Monastic Life4 sections
- Sentences to a Virgin4 sections
- Spiritual Sentences4 sections
- The Gnostic4 sections
- The Practice12 sections
- Thirty-three Chapters4 sections
- Treatise to Eulogius16 sections
Severianus of Gabala
- Fragment on the Letter to Philemon1 section
- Fragments on 1 Corinthians24 sections
- Fragments on 1 Thessalonians4 sections
- Fragments on 1 Timothy4 sections
- Fragments on 2 Corinthians8 sections
- Fragments on 2 Thessalonians4 sections
- Fragments on 2 Timothy4 sections
- Fragments on Colossians8 sections
- Fragments on Ephesians4 sections
- Fragments on Galatians4 sections
- Fragments on Hebrews4 sections
- Fragments on Philippians4 sections
- Fragments on Romans8 sections
- Fragments on Titus4 sections
- On the Blind Man and Zacchaeus12 sections
- On the Man Born Blind12 sections
- On the Three Young Men8 sections
- On the Words, When He Subjects All Things8 sections
- Sermon on Genesis4 sections
- Sermons on Job20 sections
Epiphanius of Salamis
- Appendices to the Lists of the Apostles and Disciples4 sections
- Fragments of a Prayer and an Exorcism2 sections
- Fragments on the Twelve Gems4 sections
- Homily in Praise of Mary the Mother of God8 sections
- Homily on Palm Sunday4 sections
- Homily on the Ascension of Christ4 sections
- Homily on the Burial of Christ's Body12 sections
- Homily on the Resurrection of Christ8 sections
- Letter to Emperor Theodosius4 sections
- Letter to Eusebius4 sections
- Letter to John of Jerusalem4 sections
- List of the Apostles4 sections
- List of the Bishoprics4 sections
- List of the Disciples4 sections
- Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts8 sections
- Medicine Chest against Heresies1 section
- On Faith1 section
- On the Lives and Deaths of the Prophets8 sections
- On the Lives and Deaths of the Prophets, Another Version4 sections
- On the Trinity1 section
- On the Twelve Gems4 sections
- On Weights and Measures1 section
- Recapitulation1 section
- Sayings4 sections
- Testament to the Citizens4 sections
- The Anchored One1 section
- The Eucharistic Prayer4 sections
- The Seventy-Two Prophets and Prophetesses4 sections
- Treatise against Those Who Make Images4 sections
- Treatise on the Mysteries of Numbers4 sections
John Chrysostom
Asterius of Amasea
Theophilus of Alexandria
Augustine of Hippo
Philostorgius
Cyril of Alexandria
- Fragment of the Answers to Questions3 sections
- Fragment on a Psalm3 sections
- Fragment on Baruch3 sections
- Fragments Against Diodore4 sections
- Fragments Against Theodore, Book 24 sections
- Fragments Against Theodore, Book 34 sections
- Fragments on Acts and the Catholic Epistles16 sections
- Fragments on Daniel4 sections
- Fragments on Hebrews32 sections
- Fragments on Jeremiah4 sections
- Fragments on Matthew290 sections
- Fragments on Numbers4 sections
- Homily Delivered in the Church of Cyrinus4 sections
- Letter to Photius1 section
- Letter to Sixtus, Bishop of Rome1 section
- Letter to the Council of Carthage4 sections
- Letter to Theodosius1 section
- On Adoration and Worship in Spirit and Truth, Book 139 sections
- On Adoration and Worship in Spirit and Truth, Book 1733 sections
- On Adoration and Worship in Spirit and Truth, Book 226 sections
- On Adoration and Worship in Spirit and Truth, Book 321 sections
- On Adoration and Worship in Spirit and Truth, Book 429 sections
- On Adoration and Worship in Spirit and Truth, Book 526 sections
- On Adoration and Worship in Spirit and Truth, Book 637 sections
- On Adoration and Worship in Spirit and Truth, Book 728 sections
- On Adoration and Worship in Spirit and Truth, Book 828 sections
- On the Falling Away of the Synagogue4 sections
- On the True Faith, to the Empresses Pulcheria and Eudocia48 sections
- On the True Faith, to the Princesses Arcadia and Marina100 sections
- Papyrus Fragment3 sections
- Sermon on the Three Youths4 sections
Ammonius of Alexandria
Hesychius of Jerusalem
- Homily I on Saint Longinus the Centurion8 sections
- Homily I on Saint Mary the Mother of God4 sections
- Homily I on the Presentation4 sections
- Homily II on Saint Lazarus4 sections
- Homily II on Saint Longinus the Centurion8 sections
- Homily II on Saint Mary the Mother of God4 sections
- Homily II on the Presentation4 sections
- Homily on Fasting4 sections
- In Praise of the Holy Martyrs4 sections
- On James, the Brother of the Lord, and David4 sections
- On Saint Antony4 sections
- On Saint Luke4 sections
- On Saint Procopius4 sections
- On Saints Peter and Paul4 sections
- On the Conception of the Venerable Forerunner8 sections
Julian of Eclanum
Gennadius of Constantinople
Procopius of Gaza
Alexander the Monk
Oecumenius
Olympiodorus of Alexandria
John of Damascus
Photius of Constantinople
Arethas of Caesarea
Robert Baron
John Davenant
Josué de la Place (Placeus)
Ludwig Crocius
Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu
Samuel Strimesius
John Wesley
- A Caution Against Bigotry51 sections
- Awake Thou That Sleepest25 sections
- Catholic Spirit43 sections
- Christian Perfection77 sections
- Justification by Faith16 sections
- On Sin in Believers41 sections
- Original Sin32 sections
- Salvation by Faith15 sections
- Satan’s Devices28 sections
- Scriptural Christianity33 sections
- The Almost Christian10 sections
- The Circumcision of the Heart29 sections
- The First-Fruits of the Spirit27 sections
- The Great Assize35 sections
- The Great Privilege of Those That Are Born of God43 sections
- The Kingdom of God Is at Hand23 sections
- The Law Established Through Faith Discourse I44 sections
- The Law Established Through Faith Discourse II26 sections
- The Lord Our Righteousness39 sections
- The Marks of the New Birth26 sections
- The Means of Grace46 sections
- The Nature of Enthusiasm42 sections
- The Original, Nature, Property and Use of the Law43 sections
- The Repentance of Believers32 sections
- The Righteousness of Faith22 sections
- The Scripture Way of Salvation42 sections
- The Spirit of Bondage and of Adoption41 sections
- The Witness of Our Own Spirit17 sections
- The Witness of the Spirit Discourse I31 sections
- The Witness of the Spirit Discourse II27 sections
- Upon Our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount Discourse I32 sections
- Upon Our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount Discourse II41 sections
- Upon Our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount Discourse III37 sections
- Upon Our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount Discourse IV56 sections
- Upon Our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount Discourse IX62 sections
- Upon Our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount Discourse V60 sections
- Upon Our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount Discourse VI66 sections
- Upon Our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount Discourse VII64 sections
- Upon Our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount Discourse VIII65 sections
- Upon Our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount Discourse X39 sections
- Upon Our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount Discourse XI27 sections
- Upon Our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount Discourse XII40 sections
- Upon Our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount Discourse XIII32 sections
- Wandering Thoughts37 sections