An early Christian letter from the church at Rome to the church at Corinth, traditionally associated with Clement of Rome, calling a divided community back to repentance, humility, peace, and the restoration of unjustly deposed presbyters.
A Sahidic Coptic monastic exhortation on vigilance, humility, self-control, brotherly peace, and perseverance, transmitted as a composite Pachomian work.
Ignatius gives Bishop Polycarp practical pastoral counsel on perseverance, care of the vulnerable, marriage, church order, and service to the wider Church.
Ignatius writes to the Church at Ephesus about Christian unity, faithful discipleship, resistance to false teaching, and life centered on Jesus Christ.
Ignatius calls the Philadelphian church away from division and rival teaching toward one Eucharist, one ecclesial fellowship, and faith centered on Jesus Christ.
In his most personal letter, Ignatius asks the Roman Christians not to prevent his martyrdom and expresses his desire to attain Christ through faithful endurance.
Ignatius praises the Trallians for their steadfastness and urges unity in the Church while warning against teaching that denies Christ’s real suffering.
Athanasius explains why the eternal Word became human, accepted death, and rose again in order to renew creation and restore humanity from corruption to incorruption.
The work describes earlier martyrs, Polycarp’s arrest and prayer, his hearing before the proconsul, his execution, the dispute over his remains, and the community’s commemoration of his martyrdom. A separate textual appendix preserves the alternative conclusion transmitted in the Moscow manuscript.