patristic citation/evidence. n. A biblical quotation or allusion that appears in a writing by an early church father. Patristic evidence is helpful in textual criticism as it gives us additional access to textual readings extant in the early centuries of the church.
Matthew S. DeMoss, Pocket Dictionary for the Study of New Testament Greek (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2001), 95.
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