Quadratus is perhaps the least familiar text among the artificial corpus known as the Apostolic Fathers. In fact this fragment is excluded in many editions of these texts. This discussion attempts to date and locate the fragment, to analyze its single argument, and to understand this writing in relation to the apologetic tradition that emerged in second-century Christianity.
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F. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.), ‘Quadratus, St’ in The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (3rd edn; Oxford: Oxford University Press , 1997) 1354-1354.
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B. Ehrman (ed. and trans.), The Apostolic Fathers, Vol. 2 ( LCL; Cambridge: Harvard University Press , 2003).
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R. M. Grant , ‘Quadratus, the First Christian Apologist’ in R. H. Fischer (ed.), A Tribute to Arthur Vööbus: Studies in Early Christian Literature and Its Environment, Primarily in the Syrian East ( Chicago: Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago , 1977), 177–183.
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R. M. Grant , Greek Apologists of the Second Century ( Philadelphia: Westminster , 1988).
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R. M. Grant , ‘Quadratus’ in D. N. Freedman , The Anchor Bible Dictionary, Vol. 5 ( New York: Doubleday , 1992) 582–583.
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K. Lake (ed. and trans.), Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History, Books 1–5 ( LCL; Cambridge: Harvard University Press , 1926).
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J. C. Th. Otto , Corpus Apologetarum Christianorum, Vol. 9 ( Jena , 1872).
