Studying the early Church in World History. Help me with these few things

[Todd_Easton]

prodromos:

The above translation is not accurate, though it is widespread. This is a proper translation of the text in question.

My quote was taken from the standard translation: A. Cleveland Coxe’s 1885 anti-Catholic American reprint of the 1867 Protestant Edinburgh edition of the Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1, edited by The Rev. Alexander Roberts, D.D., and James Donaldson, LL.D.

Here’s a more Catholic translation from William A. Jurgens’s The Faith of the Early Fathers, vol. 1:

“But since it would be too long to enumerate in such a volume as this the successions of all the Churches, we shall confound all those who, in whatever manner, whether through self-satisfaction or vainglory, or through blindness and wicked opinion, assemble other than where it is proper, by pointing out here the successions of the bishops of the greatest and most ancient Church known to all, founded and organized at Rome by the two most glorious Apostles, Peter and Paul, that Church which has the tradition and the faith which comes down to us after having been announced to men by the Apostles. For with this Church, because of its superior origin, all Churches must agree, that is, all the faithful in the whole world; and it is in her that the faithful everywhere have maintained the Apostolic tradition.”