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The Church Fathers · c. 247–264; survives in fragments
The Letters
Dionysius of Alexandria · c. 190–265
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What it is
Fragments preserved by Eusebius on persecution, plague, the Easter date, the Trinity, and a careful literary argument that the author of Revelation was not the author of the fourth gospel.
Why it lasted
Contains the earliest surviving piece of Christian literary criticism, and an eyewitness account of Christians nursing the sick during the plague of the 250s.
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Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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