patristic

1. It is one of the characteristics that mark it off from the Patristic era, in which the same principles were, so to speak, in solution, and not crystallized in definite expression.
   这是一个特点，马克，它从教父时代，在这同一原则，可以这么说，在解决方案，而不是结晶，在一定的表达。
2. All of these manuscripts were first discovered and published between1938and1983, but as early as the3rd century there are patristic references to the gospel of mary.
   所有这些手稿最先被发现，发表于1938年到1983年之间，但早在第三个世纪，教父们提到了玛丽亚福音书。

adj

1. of or relating to the writings of the early church fathers

   Synonym:    patristical