[The early Christians] called those who practised a godly guilelessness,1 children, [as is stated by Papias in the first book of the Lord’s Expositions, and by Clemens Alexandrinus in his Pædagogue.]
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Fragment 2
Source: This fragment is found in the Scholia of Maximus on the works of Dionysius the Areopagite.
[The early Christians] called those who practised a godly guilelessness,1 children, [as is stated by Papias in the first book of the Lord’s Expositions, and by Clemens Alexandrinus in his Pædagogue.]
Translation by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson and Frederick Crombie: The Ante-Nicene Christian Library, vol. 1: The Apostolic Fathers (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1870).
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