Excerpt from The Apostolic Fathers, Vol. 1: S. Clement of Rome; A Revised Text With Introductions, Notes, Dissertations, and Translations

The present volumes complete a work of which the first part was issued in 1869. In that year Bishop Lightfoot, being then Hulsean Professor of Divinity at Cambridge, published 'a revised text' of 'Clement of Rome - the two Epistles 'to the Corinthians - with introduction and notes.' Six years afterwards the first complete text of 'the Epistles' was published by Bryennios (1875), and in the following year a complete Syrian translation was found by Prof. Bensly in a Ms. purchased for the University Library at Cambridge, and prepared by him for publication. In 1877 Dr Lightfoot embodied the chief results of these important discoveries in "An Appendix "containing the newly recovered portions [of the Epistles of "Clement], with introductions, notes and translations." In 1879 he was called away from Cambridge to undertake the Bishopric of Durham. At that time a large portion of the edition of the Epistles of Ignatius and Polycarp was already printed. He steadily pressed forward the completion of this second part of the whole work as he had originally planned it in the scanty leisure left by his official duties, and it was issued in 1885 (second edition, revised and somewhat enlarged, 1889).

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