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Hardcover. Condizione: Good plus. First Edition. Octavo; 424 pages, dark blue cloth, gilt-stamped spines; inked name and glossing (here in only one chapter). Volume 13 in the Library of Christian Classics. Here are new translations of some of the basic Christian writings of the first two centuries of Christianity. "In modern times, with the increasing inability even of those trained in universities and theolgical colleges to read Latin and Greek texts with ease and famiiliarity, the translation of selected portions of earlier Christian literature into modern languages has become more necessary than ever before. . The efforts that have been made to meet this need are too numerous to be noted here, but none of these collections serves the purpose of the reader who desires a library of representative treatises spanning the Christian centuries as a whole. . Notes have been supplied where these were needed to explain the author's meaning." - General Preface.