A SOURCE BOOK

FOR

ANCIENT CHURCH HISTORY

FOR

ANCIENT CHURCH HISTORY

FROM THE APOSTOLIC AGE

TO THE

CLOSE OF THE CONCILIAR PERIOD

BY

JOSEPH CULLEN AYER, JR., PH.D.

PROFESSOR OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY IN THE DIVINITY SCHOOL OF THE
PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN PHILADELPHIA

NEW YORK

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

1913

MY MOTHER

WHO MADE A CHOSEN PROFESSION POSSIBLE FOR ME

I DEDICATE THIS BOOK

R. I. P.