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Philip Schaff: NPNF2-04. Athanasius: Select Works and Letters - Christian Classics Ethereal Library
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href="/ccel/schaff/npnf204/Page_i.html">i</a></span><p class="c2" id="i-p1"><span class="c1" id="i-p1.1">A SELECT LIBRARY</span></p> <p class="c2" id="i-p2">OF THE</p> <p class="c2" id="i-p3"><span class="c3" id="i-p3.1">NICENE AND</span></p> <p class="c2" id="i-p4"><span class="c3" id="i-p4.1">POST-NICENE FATHERS</span></p> <p class="c2" id="i-p5">OF</p> <p class="c2" id="i-p6"><span class="c4" id="i-p6.1">THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH.</span></p> <p class="c2" id="i-p7"><span class="c1" id="i-p7.1">SECOND SERIES</span></p> <p class="c6" id="i-p8">TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH WITH PROLEGOMENA AND EXPLANATORY NOTES. </p> <p class="c2" id="i-p9">VOLUMES I–VII.</p> <p class="c2" id="i-p10">UNDER THE EDITORIAL SUPERVISION OF</p> <p class="c2" id="i-p11">PHILIP SCHAFF, D.D., LL.D.,</p> <p class="c2" id="i-p12">PROFESSOR OF CHURCH HISTORY IN THE UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, NEW YORK. </p> <p class="c2" id="i-p13">AND</p> <p class="c2" id="i-p14">HENRY WACE, D.D.,</p> <p class="c2" id="i-p15">PRINCIPAL OF KING’S COLLEGE, LONDON.</p> <p class="c7" id="i-p16"><span class="c1" id="i-p16.1">VOLUME IV</span></p> <p class="c2" id="i-p17"><span class="c4" id="i-p17.1">ATHANASIUS:</span></p> <p class="c2" id="i-p18"><span class="c4" id="i-p18.1">SELECT WORKS AND LETTERS</span></p> <p class="c2" id="i-p19"><span class="c1" id="i-p19.1">T&T CLARK</span></p> <p class="c2" id="i-p20">EDINBURGH</p> <p class="c2" id="i-p21"><span class="c4" id="i-p21.1">__________________________________________________</span></p> <p class="c2" id="i-p22">WM. 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