The early Christian writings known as the Ante-Nicene Fathers are the most valuable aid to understanding the New Testament in its historical context. Now, you can have their entire writings at your disposal in PDF format. Our PDF version is complete with table of contents so that the user can quickly find any particular work. Not only that, the PDF format allows the user to quickly do word searches throughout the entire set of writings. The user can also highlight passages of interest and add his own comments.
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The early Christian writings known as the Ante-Nicene Fathers are the most valuable aid to understanding the New Testament in its historical context. Now, you can have their entire writings at your disposal in PDF format. Our PDF version is complete with table of contents so that the user can quickly find any particular work. Not only that, the PDF format allows the user to quickly do word searches throughout the entire set of writings. The user can also highlight passages of interest and add his own comments.
A unique feature of our PDF version of the Ante-Nicene Fathers is that we have eliminated all of the spurious writings and fake gospels that are unfortunately included in the written volumes. We have also eliminated Volume 10 of the set, which is primarily a bibliography accompanied with an “index” that is of little use to most readers. The PDF search capabilities make this index unnecessary.
Available as CD-ROM disc or a PDF digital download
Reviews
Now, this is the way to have your Ante-Nicene Fathers. It’s all on one disc. I am still a little confused when looking up a particular writing.
It’s not very easy to search this disc. It’s all there but not easy to get at. I’ll recommend it nevertheless, with that warning.
The key to using this set is by using the bookmarks that come already set-up. Just simply click the bookmark icon on the side bar of the Adobe reader and you can easily navigate this huge book. A great product at a great price, and easy to navigate to boot. Buy this!
I bought this hoping that it would make searching the large ANF collection easier, and in some ways it has……and in some it has not.
ALL of the information is there, and the bookmarks DO help. But to dig deep into a subject you have to “think” in KJV English in most ways, which is a pain IMHO. Terms like “love” or “spirit” work great, but try “affection” or “confusion” and the results are lacking….
I guess what I am trying to say is that it is about as fast going over to my bookcase, pulling the volume down, and looking it up as it is to try to do a search in the program for 70% of my studies so far. Maybe that is on me, and what I search for / search terms I enter?
But even with that, it IS well worth the cost to have all the books in one location on your HDD. The font used is easy to read on screens as small as my 7″ tablet, so for that I give it 4 stars.
My dear brothers and sisters of Scroll Publishing, I am so grateful for your arduous work of digitizing the Ante-Nicene Fathers. If I remember correctly, the hard copy volumes of this work cost much more money… and, you folks are in essence giving it away!?
I believe that you have been quite generous in doing this for us, and it shows your sincere interest in everyone’s spiritual growth, and of course, your love for the Master. Thank you again!
Re Problems navigating. I bought this as a download. You need to open it in Adobe Reader and not in your browser.
Then on the left a symbol that looks like a bookmark. Click on that and it opens the volume index.
So for example, if you are trying to find a ref from Bercot’s dictionary and say it is Julius Africanus 6.127 (p369 in dict.).
You click on Volume (book) 6 in the left index. Now in the text scroll down and there are tiny little white boxes in the left margins with numbers in, they represent the page number, in this case ‘127’. Bingo !! 🙂
It took me a while to work this out even though a customer above does state this but he talks in generic terms and it was easy to miss what he said. I now understand what he was saying ! 🙂
And just to say thankyou so much for this. A lot of hard work has gone into digitising this and you are giving it away virtually free, thankyou.
Ive only just discovered David Bercot (Sep 2021) through You Tube (even though Im of a vintage before You Tube was a thing) . Ive now bought most of your books.
Ive been a christian 30 years and I used to say myself, if only we had the writings of the very first christians !! 🙂 I wish I had come across you years ago. I was very confused for my first 10 years of being a christian because i didnt understand about calvanism. Armenius set me free !! 🙂 And your book on salvation has further added to my clarity…
I did a theology and counselling degree recently and still didnt know that we had any church fathers writings of any use…
Thanks Again
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