Sources and Credits
Where each text comes from, and the licence under which it may be reused.
The Didache
Greek text: Kirsopp Lake’s edition (Loeb Classical Library, 1912), digitized by the Perseus Project and the First Thousand Years of Greek project (CC BY-SA 4.0). English (Lake): Kirsopp Lake’s 1912 translation, from the Perseus Digital Library. Modern English: prepared for SermonIndex with AI, working from the Greek with Lake’s English as a cross-check, and released under CC BY-SA 4.0. Where our wording departs from Lake’s, a translator’s note says so. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Epistle of Barnabas
Greek text: Kirsopp Lake’s edition (Loeb Classical Library, 1912), digitized by the Perseus Project and the First Thousand Years of Greek project (CC BY-SA 4.0). English (Lake): Kirsopp Lake’s 1912 translation, from the Perseus Digital Library. Modern English: prepared for SermonIndex with AI, working from the Greek with Lake’s English as a cross-check, and released under CC BY-SA 4.0. Where our wording departs from Lake’s, a translator’s note says so. They are read from the printed apparatus by machine, and a reference is shown only when the verse’s wording matches the passage, so some real parallels are left out. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.
1 Clement
Greek text: Kirsopp Lake’s edition (Loeb Classical Library, 1912), digitized by the Perseus Project and the First Thousand Years of Greek project (CC BY-SA 4.0). English (Lake): Kirsopp Lake’s 1912 translation, from the Perseus Digital Library. Modern English: prepared for SermonIndex with AI, working from the Greek with Lake’s English as a cross-check, and released under CC BY-SA 4.0. Where our wording departs from Lake’s, a translator’s note says so. They are read from the printed apparatus by machine, and a reference is shown only when the verse’s wording matches the passage, so some real parallels are left out. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.
2 Clement
Greek text: Kirsopp Lake’s edition (Loeb Classical Library, 1912), digitized by the Perseus Project and the First Thousand Years of Greek project (CC BY-SA 4.0). English (Lake): Kirsopp Lake’s 1912 translation, from the Perseus Digital Library. Modern English: prepared for SermonIndex with AI, working from the Greek with Lake’s English as a cross-check, and released under CC BY-SA 4.0. Where our wording departs from Lake’s, a translator’s note says so. They are read from the printed apparatus by machine, and a reference is shown only when the verse’s wording matches the passage, so some real parallels are left out. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Letters of Ignatius
Greek text: Kirsopp Lake’s edition (Loeb Classical Library, 1912), digitized by the Perseus Project and the First Thousand Years of Greek project (CC BY-SA 4.0). English (Lake): Kirsopp Lake’s 1912 translation, from the Perseus Digital Library. Modern English: prepared for SermonIndex with AI, working from the Greek with Lake’s English as a cross-check, and released under CC BY-SA 4.0. Where our wording departs from Lake’s, a translator’s note says so. They are read from the printed apparatus by machine, and a reference is shown only when the verse’s wording matches the passage, so some real parallels are left out. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.
Polycarp to the Philippians
Greek text: Kirsopp Lake’s edition (Loeb Classical Library, 1912), digitized by the Perseus Project and the First Thousand Years of Greek project (CC BY-SA 4.0). English (Lake): Kirsopp Lake’s 1912 translation, from the Perseus Digital Library. Modern English: prepared for SermonIndex with AI, working from the Greek with Lake’s English as a cross-check, and released under CC BY-SA 4.0. Where our wording departs from Lake’s, a translator’s note says so. They are read from the printed apparatus by machine, and a reference is shown only when the verse’s wording matches the passage, so some real parallels are left out. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Martyrdom of Polycarp
Greek text: Kirsopp Lake’s edition (Loeb Classical Library, 1913), digitized by the Perseus Project and the First Thousand Years of Greek project (CC BY-SA 4.0). English (Lake): Kirsopp Lake’s 1913 translation, from the Perseus Digital Library. Modern English: prepared for SermonIndex with AI, working from the Greek with Lake’s English as a cross-check, and released under CC BY-SA 4.0. Where our wording departs from Lake’s, a translator’s note says so. They are read from the printed apparatus by machine, and a reference is shown only when the verse’s wording matches the passage, so some real parallels are left out. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Shepherd of Hermas
Greek text: Kirsopp Lake’s edition (Loeb Classical Library, 1913), digitized by the Perseus Project and the First Thousand Years of Greek project (CC BY-SA 4.0). English (Lake): Kirsopp Lake’s 1913 translation, from the Perseus Digital Library. Modern English: prepared for SermonIndex with AI, working from the Greek with Lake’s English as a cross-check, and released under CC BY-SA 4.0. Where our wording departs from Lake’s, a translator’s note says so. They are read from the printed apparatus by machine, and a reference is shown only when the verse’s wording matches the passage, so some real parallels are left out. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.
Papias of Hierapolis: Fragments
English translation: an older public-domain translation as collected in the Writings-Database (HistoricalChristianFaith), mostly from the Ante-Nicene, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers and similar nineteenth-century editions. SermonIndex has only divided it into chapters and short sections; the wording is the translator’s own. No Greek or Latin text is shown beside it yet, and no modern English version has been made. Licence: Public domain.
Epistle to Diognetus
Greek text: Kirsopp Lake’s edition (Loeb Classical Library, 1913), digitized by the Perseus Project and the First Thousand Years of Greek project (CC BY-SA 4.0). English (Lake): Kirsopp Lake’s translation (1913), from the Perseus Digital Library. Modern English: prepared for SermonIndex with AI, working from the Greek with Lake’s English as a cross-check, then checked in a second AI pass, and released under CC BY-SA 4.0. Where our wording departs from Lake’s, a translator’s note says so. They are read from the printed apparatus by machine, and a reference is shown only when the verse’s wording matches the passage, so some real parallels are left out. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.
Quadratus of Athens: Fragments
English translation from the Ante-Nicene Fathers (edited by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson and A. Cleveland Coxe; New York, 1885–1896; public domain), translated by Benjamin Plummer Pratten, as transcribed by volunteers of English Wikisource . SermonIndex has only divided it into chapters and short sections; the wording is the translator’s own. No Greek or Latin text is shown beside it, and no modern English version has been made. Licence. The translation is in the public domain (published before 1929). The Wikisource transcription is offered under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike licence; we credit it here. Licence: Public domain.
Aristides of Athens: Apology
English translation: The Apology of Aristides, translated from the Syriac by J. Rendel Harris (Cambridge, 1891; Texts and Studies, vol. 1), the Syriac translation as reprinted in the Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 10, public domain, from the Writings-Database collection (HistoricalChristianFaith). SermonIndex has only divided it into numbered sections; the wording is the translator’s. No usable Greek text is available, so no Greek column is shown. Licence: Public domain.
Aristo of Pella: Fragments
English translation from the Ante-Nicene Fathers (edited by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson and A. Cleveland Coxe; New York, 1885–1896; public domain), translated by Benjamin Plummer Pratten, as transcribed by volunteers of English Wikisource . SermonIndex has only divided it into chapters and short sections; the wording is the translator’s own. No Greek or Latin text is shown beside it, and no modern English version has been made. Licence. The translation is in the public domain (published before 1929). The Wikisource transcription is offered under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike licence; we credit it here. Licence: Public domain.
Hegesippus: Fragments
English translation from the Ante-Nicene Fathers (edited by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson and A. Cleveland Coxe; New York, 1885–1896; public domain), translated by Benjamin Plummer Pratten, as transcribed by volunteers of English Wikisource . SermonIndex has only divided it into chapters and short sections; the wording is the translator’s own. No Greek or Latin text is shown beside it, and no modern English version has been made. Licence. The translation is in the public domain (published before 1929). The Wikisource transcription is offered under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike licence; we credit it here. Licence: Public domain.
Claudius Apollinaris: Fragments
English translation from the Ante-Nicene Fathers (edited by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson and A. Cleveland Coxe; New York, 1885–1896; public domain), translated by Benjamin Plummer Pratten, as transcribed by volunteers of English Wikisource . SermonIndex has only divided it into chapters and short sections; the wording is the translator’s own. No Greek or Latin text is shown beside it, and no modern English version has been made. Licence. The translation is in the public domain (published before 1929). The Wikisource transcription is offered under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike licence; we credit it here. Licence: Public domain.
Dionysius of Corinth: Fragments
English translation from the Ante-Nicene Fathers (edited by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson and A. Cleveland Coxe; New York, 1885–1896; public domain), translated by Benjamin Plummer Pratten, as transcribed by volunteers of English Wikisource . SermonIndex has only divided it into chapters and short sections; the wording is the translator’s own. No Greek or Latin text is shown beside it, and no modern English version has been made. Licence. The translation is in the public domain (published before 1929). The Wikisource transcription is offered under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike licence; we credit it here. Licence: Public domain.
First and Second Apology
Greek text: Gerhard Rauschen’s edition of the two Apologies (Bonn, Hanstein, 1911; Florilegium Patristicum 2), digitized by the First Thousand Years of Greek project (CC BY-SA 4.0); editorial page markers and cross-references typed into the digital text have been removed. English (older translation): Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1 (1885), public domain, from the Writings-Database collection (HistoricalChristianFaith); we matched its sentences to the Greek rows, and the translator’s chapter titles are kept. English (older translation): Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1 (1885), public domain, from the Writings-Database collection (HistoricalChristianFaith); we matched its sentences to the Greek rows, and the translator’s chapter titles are kept. Modern English: prepared for SermonIndex with AI, based on that older English translation and checked clause by clause against the Greek, then checked again in a second AI pass, and released under CC BY-SA 4.0. Where the older translation departs from the Greek, our wording follows the Greek and a translator’s note says so. Translator’s notes also explain hard words and mark places where the author departs from Scripture. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dialogue with Trypho
Greek text: Georges Archambault’s edition (Paris, A. Picard, 1909), digitized by the First Thousand Years of Greek project (CC BY-SA 4.0); editorial page markers and cross-references typed into the digital text have been removed. English (older translation): Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1 (1885), public domain, from the Writings-Database collection (HistoricalChristianFaith); we matched its sentences to the Greek rows, and the translator’s chapter titles are kept. English (older translation): Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1 (1885), public domain, from the Writings-Database collection (HistoricalChristianFaith); we matched its sentences to the Greek rows, and the translator’s chapter titles are kept. Modern English: prepared for SermonIndex with AI, based on that older English translation and checked clause by clause against the Greek, then checked again in a second AI pass, and released under CC BY-SA 4.0. Where the older translation departs from the Greek, our wording follows the Greek and a translator’s note says so. Translator’s notes also explain hard words and mark places where the author departs from Scripture. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.
Justin Martyr: Exhortation to the Greeks
English translation: an older public-domain translation as collected in the Writings-Database (HistoricalChristianFaith), mostly from the Ante-Nicene, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers and similar nineteenth-century editions. SermonIndex has only divided it into chapters and short sections; the wording is the translator’s own. No Greek or Latin text is shown beside it yet, and no modern English version has been made. Licence: Public domain.
Justin Martyr: On the Resurrection (Fragments)
English translation: an older public-domain translation as collected in the Writings-Database (HistoricalChristianFaith), mostly from the Ante-Nicene, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers and similar nineteenth-century editions. SermonIndex has only divided it into chapters and short sections; the wording is the translator’s own. No Greek or Latin text is shown beside it yet, and no modern English version has been made. Licence: Public domain.
Justin Martyr: On the Sovereignty of God
English translation: an older public-domain translation as collected in the Writings-Database (HistoricalChristianFaith), mostly from the Ante-Nicene, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers and similar nineteenth-century editions. SermonIndex has only divided it into chapters and short sections; the wording is the translator’s own. No Greek or Latin text is shown beside it yet, and no modern English version has been made. Licence: Public domain.
Justin Martyr: Shorter Writings
English translation: an older public-domain translation as collected in the Writings-Database (HistoricalChristianFaith), mostly from the Ante-Nicene, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers and similar nineteenth-century editions. SermonIndex has only divided it into chapters and short sections; the wording is the translator’s own. No Greek or Latin text is shown beside it yet, and no modern English version has been made. Licence: Public domain.