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Where each text comes from, and the licence under which it may be reused.

The Clementine Homilies

Authorship. These writings are not by Clement of Rome. The Clementine Homilies and Recognitions are a Christian romance with sermons and debates, put together in the fourth century from an older lost source; the two letters to virgins come from the third century. Their teaching is not the teaching of the first-century Clement, and the story is fiction. Source. English translation: an older public-domain translation as collected in the Writings-Database (HistoricalChristianFaith), mostly from the Ante-Nicene, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers and similar nineteenth-century editions. SermonIndex has only divided it into chapters and short sections; the wording is the translator’s own. No modern English version has been made. Licence: Public domain.

The Clementine Recognitions

Authorship. These writings are not by Clement of Rome. The Clementine Homilies and Recognitions are a Christian romance with sermons and debates, put together in the fourth century from an older lost source; the two letters to virgins come from the third century. Their teaching is not the teaching of the first-century Clement, and the story is fiction. Source. English translation: an older public-domain translation as collected in the Writings-Database (HistoricalChristianFaith), mostly from the Ante-Nicene, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers and similar nineteenth-century editions. SermonIndex has only divided it into chapters and short sections; the wording is the translator’s own. No modern English version has been made. Licence: Public domain.

Texts from Mount Sinai

English translation by A. S. Lewis and M. D. Gibson, in Studia Sinaitica (1894–1904); public domain. The text was transcribed for Roger Pearse’s collection Early Church Fathers – Additional Texts (tertullian.org/fathers). SermonIndex has removed the page numbers and the footnotes and divided the text into sections; the wording is the translator’s own. Licence: Public domain.

Two Epistles on Virginity

Authorship. These writings are not by Clement of Rome. The Clementine Homilies and Recognitions are a Christian romance with sermons and debates, put together in the fourth century from an older lost source; the two letters to virgins come from the third century. Their teaching is not the teaching of the first-century Clement, and the story is fiction. Source. English translation: an older public-domain translation as collected in the Writings-Database (HistoricalChristianFaith), mostly from the Ante-Nicene, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers and similar nineteenth-century editions. SermonIndex has only divided it into chapters and short sections; the wording is the translator’s own. No modern English version has been made. Licence: Public domain.