Sources and Credits

Where each text comes from, and the licence under which it may be reused.

The Ecclesiastical History

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.

The Ecclesiastical History (Epitome by Photius)

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.

History of the Council of Nicaea

Greek text: Margret Heinemann’s edition (Gelasius Kirchengeschichte, Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs, 1918), digitised by Open Greek and Latin and the First Thousand Years of Greek project (CC BY-SA 4.0). The English is a new translation made by SermonIndex with AI directly from the Greek, as a first reading version; it has not been checked line by line by a person and may contain mistakes. No older English translation was used. Where the digital Greek is flagged as damaged, the English is a best reading. Released under CC BY-SA 4.0. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.

Fragments of Philip of Side

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.

Admonitions to the Monks

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.

Letters of Besa

The Coptic text was edited and translated by the Coptic SCRIPTORIUM project and is published in its open corpora (https://github.com/CopticScriptorium/corpora). English translation credited in the corpus to: Amir Zeldes, Heike Behlmer, So Miyagawa. SermonIndex has joined the project’s sentence-by-sentence translations into paragraphs, divided them into short sections and numbered them; the wording is the translators’ own. Square brackets and dots mark damaged or missing places in the manuscript. The Coptic text itself is not shown here; documents of the corpus that have no named English translation are not included. Licence. These translations are licensed Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 . You may copy and reuse them if you credit the translators and the Coptic SCRIPTORIUM project. Licence: CC BY 4.0.

Letter to Shenouda Concerning an Origenist Monk

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.

Patristic Testimonies from Irenaeus, Athanasius and Dionysius

English translation: an out-of-copyright translation as transcribed, or commissioned and given to the public domain, by Roger Pearse for his collection Early Church Fathers – Additional Texts ( tertullian.org/fathers ). 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. published 1914. Licence: Public domain.

Legends of Eastern Saints, chiefly from Syriac sources

English translation: an out-of-copyright translation as transcribed, or commissioned and given to the public domain, by Roger Pearse for his collection Early Church Fathers – Additional Texts ( tertullian.org/fathers ). 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. published 1913. Licence: Public domain.