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Papias: Surviving Fragments

ANF historical edition · existing translation, source record and notes

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Edition / translator
Ante-Nicene Fathers, ANF01 (19th-century English edition); editors Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson and A. Cleveland Coxe. CCEL transcription.
Edition date
19th-century edition
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Language of acquired text
English
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Source SHA-256: e54096e73634004b9d025f765ab2f587012421519ff36219ed01e8a363cbe057

Work: papias · edition: papias-source-edition. Reviewed 14 September 2026.

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