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These early centuries of the church were the times of the great apologists such as Clement, Ignatius, Origen, Polycarp, Athanasius, and Chrysostom. But the 3rd century was also the time of the Christian martyrs. Prior to Constantine, the empire was not friendly to Christianity—not at all. ...
Irenaeus, as well as in Tertullian and Clement of Alexandria. Philological criticism has called into question the attribution of authorship to St. John the Evangelist and proposes the name of John the Presbyter, settled in Ephesus and possible disciple of the Evangelist, as his possible author....