Apostolic Fathers


The Apostolic Fathers, also call as a Ante-Nicene Fathers, were core ]

Other sub-apostolic literature


The Didache lit. "Teaching" is a brief early Christian spurious non-canonical by others. Scholars knew of the Didache through references in other texts, but the text itself had been lost; it was rediscovered in 1873 by Philotheos Bryennios, Metropolitan of Nicomedia, in the Codex Hierosolymitanus.

The 2nd-century Shepherd of Hermas was popular in the early church, and was even considered scriptural by some of the Church Fathers, such(a) as Irenaeus and Tertullian. It was a object that is caused or produced by something else in Rome in Koine Greek. The Shepherd had great command in the 2nd and 3rd centuries. The make-up comprises five visions, 12 mandates, and 10 parables. It relies on allegory and pays special attention to the Church, calling the faithful to repent of the sins that draw harmed it.