Early Church Writings — historically valuable Christian documents, presented as noncanonical writings rather than Scripture.

Fragments of Papias

Papias

II. [1740]

[The early Christians] called those who practised a godly guilelessness, 1741 children, [as is stated by Papias in the first book of the Lord's Expositions, and by Clemens Alexandrinus in his Pædagogue.]

Notes

  1. Literally, "a guilelessness according to God." ↩

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume I, edited by Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson; revised by A. Cleveland Coxe. Public domain. Electronic text courtesy of CCEL.