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163 primary sources across 93 authors — 12,959 passages linked to Scripture. Church Fathers, Reformers, confessions and catechisms, the Catholic Catechism, verse-by-verse commentaries, and historical sources, all public domain.

Apostolic & Ante-Nicene Fathers 27

Justin Martyr 100-165
Irenaeus of Lyons 130-202
Clement of Rome 1st century
Ignatius of Antioch 1st-2nd century
Polycarp of Smyrna 1st-2nd century
Unknown (Didache) 1st-2nd century
Unknown (Pseudo-Barnabas) 1st-2nd century
Hermas 2nd century
Origen of Alexandria 3rd century
Tertullian 2nd-3rd century AD
Cyprian of Carthage 3rd century AD
Clement of Alexandria 2nd-3rd century AD

Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers 28

Athanasius of Alexandria 296-373
Augustine of Hippo 354-430
John Chrysostom 349-407
Antony the Great 3rd-4th century
Abba Poemen 4th-5th century
Abba Moses the Black 4th century
Abba Arsenius 4th-5th century
Amma Syncletica 4th century
Abba Macarius the Great 4th century
Abba John the Dwarf 4th-5th century
Abba Sisoes the Great 4th-5th century
John of Damascus 8th century
Eusebius of Caesarea 4th century
Basil the Great (Basil of Caesarea) 4th century AD
Gregory of Nyssa 4th century AD
Pope Leo the Great (Leo I) 5th century AD
Cyril of Jerusalem 4th century AD
Ambrose of Milan 4th century AD

The Medieval Church 1

Thomas Aquinas 13th century

The Reformation 5

John Calvin 1509-1564
Huldrych Zwingli 16th century
John Knox 16th century

The Modern Era 9

Jonathan Edwards 18th century
George Whitefield 18th century
John Wesley 18th century
Charles Haddon Spurgeon 19th century

Verse-by-Verse Commentaries 21

Adam Clarke
Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset, David Brown
John Gill
Carl Friedrich Keil, Franz Delitzsch
Matthew Henry
Martin Luther 1483-1546
John Chrysostom 4th-5th century
John Calvin 16th century
Martin Luther 16th century

Confessions & Catechisms 38

Westminster Assembly 17th century
Philip Melanchthon 16th century
Church of England 16th century
Council of Nicaea 4th century
Council of Chalcedon 5th century
Council of Trent 16th century
First Vatican Council 19th century
Second Vatican Council 20th century
Zacharias Ursinus and Caspar Olevianus 16th century
Synod of Dort 17th century
Guido de Brès 16th century
Heinrich Bullinger 16th century
Synod of Jerusalem (Dositheus) 17th century
International Council on Biblical Inerrancy 20th century
National Association of Evangelicals 20th century
General Assembly of Baptist Churches (1689) 17th century
John Wesley 18th century
General Council of the Assemblies of God 20th century
Thomas Campbell 19th century
Lutheran Church (Formula of Concord) 16th century
Martin Luther (Smalcald) 16th century
Philip Melanchthon (Apology) 16th century
The Western Church 2nd–4th century
The Western Church (Athanasian) 5th–6th century
Anglican Communion 19th century
New Hampshire Baptist Convention 19th century
Barton W. Stone and others 19th century

Catholic Magisterium 11

Catholic Church (Magisterium) 1992
Pope Leo XIII
Pope Pius XII
Pope John Paul II
Pope Benedict XVI

Historical & Extra-Biblical Sources 12

Flavius Josephus 1st century AD
Tacitus 1st-2nd century AD
Pliny the Younger 1st-2nd century AD
Suetonius 1st-2nd century AD
Moses Maimonides (Rambam) 12th century
Philo of Alexandria 1st century BC - 1st century AD
Rashi (Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki) 11th century AD
Lucian of Samosata 2nd century AD
Mara bar Serapion 1st century AD

Textual Scholarship 11

Bruce M. Metzger 1914-2007
Bart D. Ehrman 1955-
Kurt Aland 1915-1994
Barbara Aland 1937-
Daniel B. Wallace 1952-