The Apostolic Fathers (2)

Last month we gave you a brief sketch of the period called the Apostolic Age. It is now our intention to consider more in detail one of the Apostolic Fathers who lived in that age. There were, as we remarked last time, six of these Apostolic Fathers whose names we know. They are Clement, Ignatius, Polycarp, Barnabas, Hermas and Papias. Of these we have singled out Ignatius of Antioch for special consideration today. We do so not because we consider him to be the greatest defender of the truth...