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Historical Christian Faith: church-father quotations

Scripture-linked quotations of 201 church fathers and other historical authors from the Historical Christian Faith Commentaries-Database (github.com/HistoricalChristianFaith/Commentaries-Database, browsed at historicalchristian.faith), English translations (ANF/NPNF, CCEL, New Advent and others), compiled as Citation CSV v3.2 on 2026-10-27 in three files. On 2026-10-28 216 references were fixed (Septuagint and Vulgate numbering, chapter typos, quotations filed under the neighbouring verse) and only the rows whose excerpt quotes the verse were kept (owner rule T-Q585): 46,416 of 94,432 rows. Publisher: Historical Christian Faith (publisher entity not recorded)

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Dataset
Licence
Historical Christian Faith Commentaries-Database: public-domain dedication (with a fair-use notice for some excerpts)
Sampling design
Convenience
Population
The rows of the three HCF files whose excerpt quotes the verse (46,416 of 94,432), without the 5 rows of one contemporary author who is probably living (rule C9, T-Q577): 46,411 quotations.
Known biases
HCF is organised by verse, so commentary passages are over-represented before the quote check; the check compared the word order of each excerpt with the verse in KJV, WEB and ESV and is right about 4 times in 5 in its uncertain middle band (some loose quotations of older translations dropped, some close paraphrases kept). Latin and Greek authors via 19th-century English translations. Dates per author (lifespan) or per work.
Retrieved
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Labels absent from the dataset
0 (not surveyed, which is not the same as zero)
Web address
https://historicalchristian.faith/

Coverage

No coverage statement: zeros of this source are not evidence of non-use.

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