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The Epistle of Polycarp is usually made a sort of preface to those of Ignatius, for reasons which will be obvious to the reader. Yet he was born later, and lived to a much later period. They seem to have been friends from the days of their common pupilage under St. John, and there is nothing improbable in the conjecture of Usher, that he was the "angel of the church in Smyrna, " to whom the Master says, "Be thou faithful unto death, and I will...

The Apostolic Fathers are the Christian writers from the first and second centuries who are thought to have known, some of the Apostles, or to have been so directly influenced by the apostles that their writings are considered echoes of genuine Apostolic teaching. Their writings form a link of tradition that binds these writings to those of the New Testament.Chief among the apostolic fathers are the three first-century Bishops: St. Clement of ...