The Apostolic Fathers, Second Edition, Part 1, Volume 1: Clement

Bishop Lightfoot's critical text of Clement's Letter of the Romans to the Corinthians and Pseudo-Clementine epistles with background essays on the Apostolic Fathers, Clement of Rome, and text-critical issues. Includes an autotype reproduction of the Constantine Manuscript.

Dr. Joseph Barber Lightfoot was born in Liverpool, England, in 1828. He was educated at Cambridge and Oxford and became Lord Bishop of Durham in the Church of England. He served as minister in St. Paul's Cathedral, London, and later was Professor of Divinity at Cambridge University. He was one of the original members of the New Testament Company of Bible Revisers. Dr. Lightfoot is best known for his remarkable scholarship, evidenced in his Commentaries on Galatians, Philippians, Colossians and Philemon.