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Fragments of Hegesippus

Hegesippus · c. 170 AD

Ante-Nicene Fathers (Roberts–Donaldson), Roberts, Donaldson, and Coxe (eds.), Ante-Nicene Fathers, Buffalo: Christian Literature Publishing, 1885–1887; digitized by CCEL.

Second-century Christian historian whose five-volume Hypomnemata (Memoirs) traced the apostolic succession of the major sees from the apostles to his own time. The work is lost; fragments survive in Eusebius. He is the principal source for the tradition that St James the Just was thrown from the pinnacle of the Temple.

Contents

  1. Unattributed(1 chapter)
  2. Fragments from His Five Books of Commentaries on the Acts of the Church(4 chapters)