The Ante-Nicene Christian Library is meant to comprise translations into English of all the extant
works of the Fathers down to the date of the first General Council held at Nice in A.D. 325. The sole pro-
visional exception is that of the more bulky writings of Origen. It is intended at present only to embrace in the
scheme the Contra Celstim and the De P>-incipiis of that voluminous author; but the whole of his works will be
included should the undertaking prove successful.