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Forty Centuries of Christian Writing

1780 works catalogued century by century, from the literature the Bible was written among to the present — each with a note on what it is, why it lasted, and where to read it.

101–200

The Second Century

1 work

c. 150–200; preserved in Hippolytus

Greek

The Naassene Sermon

Anonymous

A commentary on a hymn to Attis, read so that the mysteries of the Phrygians, the Egyptians, the Assyrians, and the Greeks all turn out to be saying what the gospel says, with the primal Man at the centre of every one of them.

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