THE UNDIVIDED CHURCH INTERPRETS – 1st Volume: The Apostolic Fathers

In the pages of this volume, you will have the opportunity to read the direct or indirect interpretative comments of the Apostolic Fathers on the various aspects of the text.

The hermeneutical approach of the Apostolic Fathers is extremely important since they are the first guardians of the Apostolic tradition, practice and mentality, as they had a personal relationship with the Apostles and served as their “hearers”.

In The Apostolic Fathers’ interpretative comments on passages of Scripture, the reader will have the opportunity to “smell” the mindset of the early Church, the Apostles passed down after their departure in the Lord, its position on important spiritual issues, such as salvation by faith, practical love for one’s fellow human being through good works, baptism in water, the Holy Communion, the duties of bishops-presbyters-deacons, humility, the necessity of transformation of man, temperance as a way of keeping the floodgates of grace open, martyrdom and sacrifice as a result of the certainty that there is eternal life beyond the grave, but also its unceasing expectation of the imminent coming of the Lord and so on.