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Pressensé. The early years of Christianity. 1871

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Second and
with the
gin and
ligion
work equally
people.
as
follows
can
be
obtained
from
Church, from
Commodus to
wide
or
nomadic,
home-
Churches
come ? In Him
faith
of
the
several
tribes
avdpuiiriov Iv
shall need to
missionary
activity.t
as so
votaries
of
a
materialistic
—the cross
to the
degenerate Romans.
the surfeited
as
philosophers
seemed
to
Justin
Martyr
a
like the
unquestion-
noted,
came
against
a
out of the
be despised
hatred or
craving after
by
it.
Hence
gaze is
discern the
could
not
be
hidden
in
the
Archimedes,
applied
to
from
end
to
end
of
the
long
draughts,
that
which
that
crossed
by
the
question,
since
;
end
with
a
Esculapius, the inventor of
they
are
daring
Christian."*
This
bold
in
the
are of
miracles born of
world, and
centuries,
the
he found
a pagan
people at
his own
;
my inward
truth.
You
are
more
adapted
than
those
discus-
so to
around
him
an
attentive
crowd
discussion
at
Rome,
with
portico,
under
which
athletes
used
to
exercise.
J
The
of
autumn.
we
found
apostles
the
respect and
due
rather
than
to
its
;
empire of the
names
of
the
bishops
the
very
countries.
It
surnamed '^the Enlightener,"
Cedrenus, "he
eftected the
sure
progress,
effected
by
the
dissemination
of
prayer,
happened
fell
ill,
him
carried
to
her
into
no sure
and certain
means of
this power,
religions
to
religion
of
Parseeism,
ancients
Oeov iKKkrirfiac,
quests of
the previous
by a
more free
faithful who are in
the
as
mistress
;
even
in
a
time
of
universal
infamy.
It
had
gymnasia,
where
their
commandants,
and
all
the
array
oi
is
not
running
over
with
vice
Carthage,
of
genius of
and
at more
on
spreading
from
town
to
of
society.
We
to appre-
ciate the
progress made
three
centuries,
strove
rather
of the empire,
come
wealthy,
and
vast tracts
3.
Tarn,
extended
not succeed
marked
nationality,
are
the
however,
distinguished
up
a
sort
of
anticipation
sighed, and as
well adapted to
the
agonies
of
the
prisoners
who
were
sacrificed,
Is
in
the
beliefs
took
worship.]:
Dionysius
was
the
Gauls.
because
it
is
Roman
civilisa-
tion.
Let
abhor
it.
We
flee
purity,
they
an honour.
to be
independence
of
willing,
would
have
features
the
temptation
to
create,
like
on
a
new
but
this
consti-
Angleterre
en
Scandinavie
et
of
conscience.
A
breath
of
it. The nations which
goddess Freya became to
legends, in their
Christianity.
wars waged by
This ice,
South
Pole,
formed
elements,
which
of
Chaos,
compose
the
Nine
spheres
which
dwell
the
great warrior. His sons
god
In these incongruous fables,
conscious-
divinities
in
the
great
shipwreck
Fall.
When
the gods.
The decease
of Baldur,
the fight
renewed
humanity
join with
and
the
races
bordering
name of Christ,
be better
being
instructed
by
them,
then
took
place
in
We
may
thus
would be
of those,
all
manner,
year, or shall
goddess
Christian
the
ever-impending
threat
was
deeply
tainted
How could
throne
or
which rendered the
in fight, and
unshaken fidelity as
bishop ofnthe
Christians,
and
was
not
the
which was but
imperial
a
short
and
of
et
Caesaris?"
(TertuUian,
escape
malicious
observation
connivance
classes
of
a
nation
them,
and
our
dwellings
town
taken
by
assault."
the tribune of
the soldiers and
reply
for
their
trial.
t
We
read
in
the
accused,
Then
it
might
seem
that
body
of
the
victim,
and
in
and
having
thus
indicated
the
same day. But,
captivity of
an
ear
only
for
to
avenge
his
his
behalf,
was
thrown
into
a
horrible
dungeon,
in duabus
"
suggested.
enthusiastic
joy
filling
the
heart
of
heaven,
reaching
from
earth
to
heaven.
deny the
faith, he
spinarum
germine
flos
coronas."
of their anguish that the hating, in the sense of
this
cup
thing,
and
the
the
earthly
tinctions,
so
much
accounted
of
by
the
world,
is
an
unfailing
characteristic
capital punishment
against
remorseless
barbarity.
Condemnation
was
Among
the
proconsuls
some
for the
ward agony
accursed
perform voluntarily
his arm falls powerless
the devil
victim before
The
mighty
voice
be
extraordinary
in
we
read
feel that
no
other
crime,
it
is
Jesus
the Church
is the
and
com-
;
St.
Paul,
explains
the
 
He allowed
rating Roman
consul
could
estimate
Trajan and
sustained.
in
examining
the
accused
slaves
anything
to
lay
to
are
still
to
be
-f
the question,
thus
absolute
of the Church.
cause, were
honour, and
to pour
out the
journeys
the
place
audacity,
it
would
steal
the
sanguinary
6.
of
animated him.
to the
ancient traditions."
placid
tempera-
ment,
kill
a
thousand
enemies."
t
Trajan's decree, and thus
its
relations
to
doctrinal
justice,
to
which
violence
was
whole
unjustly
duty
you
have
firm
bold
utterance
in the case of the
disciples
for
the
may
Justin
and
have
to
borrow
to
It
aims
to
Christians
but
at
of the
same truth.
Such dogmatic
disquisitions were
falters.
Profoundly
convinced
that
the
struggle
between
the
Church
and
the
Empire
is
pre-eminently
a
struggle
between
the
powers
not
of
themselves
act
for their
years
had
It
would
purest
highest
possible
sum
"Apology" of
such
to good.
He knew
every crime with
life
of
to it
ail
by which
alarm and
The stoical school,
influence. Christianity,
from
leading it
to do
;
According
reason everything goes
what
and
the
offer
also to
prejudice the
the
for evil he is to
rely entirely
||
of such
impatience
at
its
which
character
becoming
a
man
and
a
Roman.
thine ofhce.
actions which
forms.
each
philosophical,
views
them.
It
dcpop/xi^v
they
were
essentially
doctrinal
treatises.
zens."*
Melito
then
a
prevailed in
scourges by which it
Xafnrpbv
to
piofiaiojv
ever
formed
philosophical
argu-
know,"
he
says,
*'that
but
believe
that
men
who
keep
might
be
lust.
reads the
all its impuri-
of the
words of
were
willing
defence
Marcomanni
prayers
of
a
Christian
legion,
This story,
greatest
force
as
usual,
in
especially
against
spent itself.
of Asia Minor gives
V. c.
of
child
of
fifteen,
wild
beasts
could
of the
from
whom
they
looked
to
receive
revive
the
persecution,
was
QiXi^aaaa.
to
death
hand."
and
The latter,
detail in
prison
; does
it
not
hold
in
bondage
but
before
the
judges.
prisoner
the
sight
to resist
to
fight.
into the
oil
death, ever
at hand,
may at
persecution
sed
vos
soluti
Deo
estis.
expectatur,
sed
they
the
transit
from
shining
of
a
pomp, in
the duty
the
letter
writings.
This
circus.
Their
absence,
through Asia Minor (a.d.
the ban
tion, in its missionary
magistrate
on
Letter to
the
informer
who
TertuUian
such
proceedings,
work,
from hell. Who
precious blood?
it was
vel furunculo
vel furunculo
the
Christian
sickness,
since
sickness,
too,
is
salutary
discipline.
any
discontinuance
of
when
found
at
their
cowardice w^ith
spiritual
to
individual
devotedness.
this
treatise
by
magnifying
the
suffering
for
truth.
as
applicable
a heroic remedy
X
The
annals
with
is
eloquence
had
achieved
of
and enthusiastic.
often
in
violate
laws
the
most
ancient
and
honourable
by
the
seditions
I53
worshipper
of
the
and at the
ipsum Capi-
"
I
Jejuniis
aridi
volutantes
Deum
tangimus,
Jupiter
§
"
eo
the
spoils
that he
?
earth,
a
translation.
f
Africa than
advanced and
the
influence
of
consul
There
who
spoke
in
the
name
of
heroism,
not
what
of kings,
into
witness
and im-
mediately executed.*
Some years
on the
horrors
of
captivity
of mind
reserve.
This,
as
we
my
family
life
had
his
to
all
his
vicious
passions.
their wild
at his
legislature
He
thus
broke
down
for
ever
respite
during
measure
in
''Apology;
who
enrols
himself
in
this
sect,
Nay, what
men
love
their
friends,
but
only
Christians
love
their
enemies.
empire in
upon
God
warns
of
Carthage
sick-
ness
may
He
image
nature or of
excesses.
His
predilection
for
have been
protector. His
the
mode
of
election
used
by
the
The
Gnostic
tendency
countenance
from
earthquakes,
swallowing
up
such visitations
to the
oIkov
imprisonment
more
prevalent
in
to
be
the Church.
the
soul
from
the
heavenly
Bridegroom,
them.
Just
as
those
of
ease
and
self-indulgence,
Origen rises
to
more terrible storm
for a brief
instant saluted emperor
father
and
in
honour
so
proudly
boasted.
Philip
policy,
persecution
would
result o
'*
Arabian, recognises
which
miraculous inter-
was
sensibly
lowered,
that
the
murdered, after
tortures
can invent.
Metras, a
Gregory
Thau-
maturgus,
by
Gregory
and by
the excess
Church
places.
"
hst
nevertheless
due
to
them
honour
by
rallying
a
speaks of
limbs being
broken and
of
sinful
(Cyprian,
Rome,
''had
reached
me
of
thus set
young
persons,
openly
apostatised.
Pionius
was
celebrating
surprised by an
excited mob, and
his
imprisonment,
us
a
in
the
first
of
was
children only fifteen
under
as
held in
their bleeding
hands the
rising
higher
and
higher
in
glory
the
raise
to
triumph
children, now she has found
a
un-
worthy
an
act,
was
marked
by
frequent
invasions,
in
brethren!
What
concursus
atque
complexus
occurrentium
singulorum."
To
his
which
might
readily
hand. He
violence
or
the
seductions
Our
children
biographer of
was
extended
even
passionate
eloquence.
mode of
with forbidding
which
gives
us
some
idea
of
course
a
Martyrdom."
In
order
to
world.
Earth
is
shut
against
vividly
conceived
by
him,
of
a
courageous
death
for
the
shall
so
turn against
designed
raised
at
once
to
the
throne
to
consideration.!
It
story is in
(Mosheim,
again
forbidden
all
ingress
to
these
Christian
sanctuaries
and
now,
was probably
an agent
of Galerius,
of the Christians.*
by
commanded
advantage over
him of
to
refer
the
decision
given in
Its
purport
the whole
community, when
private
life,
to
in
the
African
Church.
day and
avail
to
shield
them
in
cruel
of
Tabora,
in
Africa,
withstood
persecution,
for
there
exposed to
their
own
worship,
would
not
embrace
Maximinus had
under new forms
a
very
of
the
martyrdom
to
in
in
epoch,
elders of
of
righteousness
and
the
page he
altogether a
later
life
diate
he
had
in
all
imbued
with
all
the
prejudices
Minor.
This
progress
Nero
and
his
the
Roman
populace
a
He
was
sent
to
language
for
them
also),
that
that
scandal
God
that
age
to
of
his
triumphal
memory.
of righteousness,
with
Anicetus
on
Ignatius,
proconsul,
who
urged
to
"Almighty God,
rbi'
ftacriXsa
of
Christianity
with
If we
Justin
Martyr
and
Irenseus
far
or
instead
Asia
explicit
adherence
he
rather
than
St.
Paul
the
in Routh,
seems to
find
several
influ-
Jews,
and
Apollonius,
whose
enabled him
to un-
problems
of
philosophy,
which
Greek, whose
himself.
But
olden times
light
may
be
opened
Justin's
one
by his
strength
and
same results
these secret
for
responsibility
resting
He
wisdom
is
hidden
from
your
you
that
I
feel
constrained,
to
suffer
a
death
of
hatred
of
a
godless
age
and
words
stream of
confine
himself
to
gathering
up
the
memories
of
the
Church,
but
colleague
Irenaeus
to
bear
to
thee
and uphold their opinion
The
Montanists
had
not
as
(Eusebius, ''H. E./'
who
were
the
insinuating themselves into families, and, under
a
mask
of
orthodoxy,
using
century.t
is
too
commonly
them.
We,
;
opinion
passed
augmenting
after
his
death,
of
doctrinal
in pre-
they
move
thus
a
the
death
of
confessors. §
Achaian
give
sufficient
proof
trious representatives.
But it is to
poetry
or
manly
eloquence,
but
defects.
Alexandria
letters.
Men
lived
manuscripts.
Such
institutions
do
not
and
the
Peripatetic
bishop.
The
work
was
philosophy.
At
Alexandria,
Catechists
*'
into
holy
ardour.
We
carrying
the
thus preparing
Scriptures,
written
by
(Clement,
whom
Pantaenus
was
chief.
(Ibid.,
enters
into
no
a
record
of
one
This
He
of
becoming
between
various
individuals
and
ready
for
of
more
the
pagan
philosophers
of
his
All
it
promiscuously; but
do so
death,
asylum
now
accursed,
it the
which
he
tation
to
a
from
passion.
him off
particular
point
of
doctrine,
he
yet
remains,
after
His
name
was
derived
brass.
of
a
pagan
designation.
They
enjoyed
a
Marcus
Aurelius.
There
the
liberal
educa-
found
the
food
of
his
earnestness
could
a
More than
Alexandria
was
before the
death of
illustrious
to be
his desire to see
fearing lest
 
good
Christian truth.
heretics, who under-
tribunal
of
the
magistrates,
really
new
science,
to
of the
he
says,
—the
pursuit
of
should as-
sume at
this period
An
atmosphere
wholly
premacy in the metropolis of Egypt, by all the various
systems of
of
him
strictly
obligatory
ol the
those
praise
of
their
fellows
favour, with
at
KaTaoKtvt]V
spreading
over
its
corruption
a
doctrine
and
apology
agitated
in
the settlement
religion,
thought
she
could
departed he
abode
in
Egypt,
gave
himself
to
rather
at
the
service
of
influence
to
the
teaching
and
writings
of
9eiov Xoyov
yXey^e
ry iSiqi
fell
into
many
errors,
but
he
nevertheless
towards
Church
the narrow
party, of
to
Christians,
who
preached without
so
to so honourable an
appeal, he set out
to
break
Alexandria does not justify
went
the
clear
mani-
festation
approval
personal considerations.
course
his disciple
sition
of
Origen
as
a
priest.
for
evil.
He
detested
heresy
he knew well
a
but
No
angry
once
recover
calmness
to
"
mental power,
and to
his friend
Ambrose cast
Old
Testament.
This
was
a
bliss
:
*
turn say with
to
Julius
sures of the
expression
distinction of
coarse
tritheism.
this
noble
Church
she
had
his
wife,
Severa,
designed
the Church's
was
derisive
which he
master of
from
the
still retained the
which
eclecticism
than
any
career of Origen. The larger part of his great
works
theological
system
—an
exposition
of
which
would
thought
; he
desired
to
bring
a
little
boat,
he
has
committed
himself
in
so
frail
a
favouring
winds
of
the
inspired
all
his
theology;
it
the
breast
desire
to
of all his ideas,
we make for
no
less
than
that
his
task
would
path
to
be
pursued.
that
raised
to
the day, or upon
assembly. Following
so as
the Church ; to
unreserved
and
willing
victim,
in
the
direction
of
the
truth, straightforwardness,
indulgence
or
clergy
of
that
work.
It
is
clear
that
the
Revelation,
§
torch of the
perils
over it.
pursuit
of
knowledge.
t
Photius,
point in
honour
to
make
exile.
We
have
also
his friendship to
The majority of
the
adjacent
countries
his letter to
238,
he
seventeen
entirely
lost.t
Malchion,
a
priest
realism,
doctrine of pre-existence,
and insisted on
was
unjust
has been
ends.
never enters into
We find in
or questions of
credit
Prudentius.t
Here
his homilies,
Irenaeus
the
of
Peter
of
Alexandria
conflict
im-
placable
severity,
brow
an
inefface-
compromised.*
had not been
Heliogabalus, and the
recalled, but
Utpl
which only made
in
the
absence
of
he
was
but the
do,
therefore
sells the flock
thought
of
baptism
of
heretics.
Stephen
for fifteen
him
to
labour,
early
period
of
his
does he
various
of his
Greek :
the
imperious
his
nature,
and
from
things
things
accursed,
and
pressed
foot,
without
remorse,
everything
which
purpose.
He
was
ever.
ready
to
avow
that
thought
!"*
admirable
humility
which
the
Church
of
Carthage.*
St.
Jerome
speaks
of
him
under
this
so
far
as
to
do
injustice
to
taken down. Such a
make
him
an
yearning
for
their
parts
there
some
enjoyment
giving
the crown
exclaims,
its
it utterly. He is strongly
aggressive, and
judicial
portion,
that
which
and
tone.
foreign
yoke ?
He
draws
a
very
humorous
picture
of a
deprived of health,
are always dwelling
in
highly
of
a
mind
full
of
him. He who offends thee does it with
intent to
even more
with
a
spirit
to
condemn
not
also
with
society
is present
not been
triumph
that
posed
towards
full
If
Tertullian,
tianity
before
the
Miletus had
been
woven
of
the
trees
of
India
dead,*
would
have
sired
such
of
uttermost agony, or he
bitterly
breadth
and
writer
ever
spoke
with
Souls we
read thus :
of
dying,
bearing
on
the
progress of
buried in darkness.t
with
a
shroud
and
be
thy
prophetess,
that
thou
mightest
in
freedom
in
God
it under the
always
yield.
operations,
and
His
expectations
had
beguiled
utterly
loath-
some,
he was capable of
more self-restraint than that
his old
it offered.
giving
fresh
proof
dignity
of
the
hold
the
helm.
Cyprian
was
him
plain.
ill becomes
confessors.''^ On
this party
and
Maximus
Novatus proceeded
This entire controversy
forward
Church
for
city,
had
exercised
his
bishopric.
He
me to
But
Arnobius,
forgetting
that
and
paganism
of
Alexandria.
Arnobius
indicated.
t
St.
Jerome,
plebeian
much
innocent
responsible,
once
of
bold
that
ease, shrinks
but
since,
conduced
to
league
formed
against
the
doctrines.
alone
is
enough
to
;
world, and
the
same
aspirations,
with
the
low
his
merciless
mockery.
In
order
rightly
general,
for
not
carried
away
by
the
more
ludicrous
than
that
crises,
in
which
the
a
desolate
region
sown
error,
and
manner in which
his direct
them
back
to
it
is
to
be
traced
in
If
we
except
a
few
thoughtful
manner
of
writing
history,
in
which
he
argues
he
strikes
at
laughter.
poet of
The
words
which
the
of
the
poor
awakened
dreamer
upon
the
gods
they
domestic
quarrel
between
Juno
and
Jupiter;
the
latter
appears
as
an
old
libertine,
irritable
and
weak,
the
success of
is
convoked.-
They
assemble
rvxi]- (Ibid.,
pro-
longed,
but
The
believer'asks
the
sceptic
if
paganism,
and
gods
preaches sobriety
in the
catechising
in
his
drunken
state.
The
laxity
of
at
the
the
brimming
cup
in the morning he
he devours like
the
bad
philosophy
of the
Philosophers," is
unable to
Buyer.
What
is
the
The
great
soul
of
too indifferent
such feelings,
some new
469
that
we
highest
into prison
of the visible,
crucified
in
Palestine
for
having
introduced
a
strange
worship
into
Judaea.
one
celebrated
by
the
con-
Kal
c,vray(t)yevg
Kai
ttclvtci
f.i6voQ
fitv
^vvsypafe
kg
tov
(3iov. ("
but
aims
wallet
and
burns
some
incense,
only
the
invisible
holy
love
against
selfish
strength
the
year
142
after
Christ ;
and
valueless all the
and
to
the
cause
of
Christ.
It
new religion,
apologist
of
the
Epicurean,
;
to
modified Platonism
was completely mistaken upon
butes to
high
philosophical
would
have
assigned
to
the
Since he repre-
ideas
syncretism?
Besides,
the
brute
was
the
hypothesis
assailant.
He
Detailed
discussion
characterised.*
He
hatred
and
wrath
know
no
law.
to
him
by
king,
who
with
a
view
to
obviate
objections
plead."
The
Jew
passes
in
ject
of
the
concentrated
malice
than
any
all,
man who regards
led
a heart
;
"||
history
of
these
mythical
personages,
become
a
solemn
verity
when
the
world,
and
"
Their
even
are
Everything is
God, must be
still retaining
the common
name of
d\f)9tiav, dXka
of his
and ornamentation
alone
engage
Mithra
and
Hercules.
hold.
Their
ordinary
language
is:
wealth cannot be
the same
grants
to
the
religion
resembles
Apis
connected with
the folly
of the
starting
from
the
lowest
existence,
beings,
gods
or
defend
it
with
the
can be
no such
*
trans-
formation
is
impossible,
ages ?
form
?t
But
other men
and
His
face
had
read, in
"Do
idol,
do
He does
that
hidden
forces
slumber
in
not
hesitate
to
inflict
an
in-
delible
brand
upon
humanity.
poses;
to obey
devour us, without the
The
to
catch
the
the time, but
that
these,
clothed
to
dwell
for
ever
in
I do not
the will nor in
dualism which
displayed
to
neglect
had
given
birth
to
Neo-Platonism,
religion.
In
the
opposition
offered
be
all
we
living
near
to
the
Empress
Julia
supplant
cha-
racter
of
new figure. Philostratus
magician
tions
of
the
he
had
restored.
be found upon
gods.
When
he
arrived
in
any
 
who
openly
resists
tyrants,
and
cold.
thoughts in
said,
''after
the
body
has
enemy
the
Christians
had.
J
the
difficulties
he denied
Hebrew.
of
John,
regard
Apollo-
nius,
commune
ficti
dogmatis
accusare
mendacium
side
of
all
lives
replying seriously
folly
persecuted Church were
assailants
renounce
intellectual
of
ignominy,
to
by
its
in
one
broad
anathema,
attack
and
defence
pursued
by
down to
of words
Truth, the Word.
is
truly
in
the
is
enough
fundamental principle
then
fairly
be
regarded
Christian
apology,
for
the
sole
mission
the
germ
;
to
the
inconsis-
tencies,
a
very
doctrine
persecution.
To
Hellenism, the
noble and
it
makes
advances
have
par
with
Divine
creation;
it
of
sweeter
lyre
and
who
lives
own nature
falls into the condition
derations
of
make
habitual
use;*
but
reason,
left
fHaaiXiK}].
the truth,
material
proof,
since
of
creation,
enters
the
any
the
that
will,
which
brings
out
of
the
divine
element
within
with us
to
God
conformity
it
of
a
sacred
world
and
views
of
Clement
on
theology,
properly
so
called,
becomes science
The
demonstration
of
Christianity
on
great array
that religious truth
of the soul, of what
avail
own
much to
is
face
to
human
first
declare
the
revelation
on
the
fulfilment
is the
whose word
of reasoning
is the
and
you
who
to your
true Father.^
Book which brings
faith in
the
chosen
of
God,
the
steward
glory, though
to
re-
form
you
in
faith,
are
weary
and
heavy
laden,
come
unto
assured
faith,
and
appropriate
that the revelation
of
in the
in
the
for
the
comparing her
idiiofia
oi
smoking
that
has
opposed
itself
to
Christianity
fire
of
doubtful
steps
along
a
the
writings
his
peculiar
saries
to
meet
him
on
this
arena.
Restrictions
of
space
with a
what
signs
and
miracles
Christ
resisted
the
greater
miracles
meed
enemy
from
its
capital
and
from
over
the
earth
like
long
world,
well
those
rejects
the
wise
of
men.
"We
openly
avow
that
we
desire
to
instruct
every
human
being
he
becomes
free
in
balm
even the lowest of
it
to
which
they
expose
him,
much
lamented
bettered, rather grow worse. Is it not
a
service
rendered
to
Pythagoras
It is
in
presence
tween
Christianity
as
does
revelation,
by
the
oracles
presents
itself
to
us
divine
lessons
a remark-
all its
idle
not
possible
 
novelty of the
and
these
stepping-stones
he
schools
of
the
philosophers,
elements
of
truth
to exalt
the dignity
the brutes,
divides
infamous,
how
should
they
attempt
the
listened to
vigorous
reasoning
herd
in
the
history
of
mankind,
the
miliation,
the
new
eye
is
needed,
heart.
of
whether
might
be
whether
it
be
Clement of Alexandria.
to
with
much
bitterness,
fables
at Alexandria,
to the oracles
Apologies and
charge of
miracle
and
from
our
sacred
books
go
no one
is born
a Christian,
living
Word,
confidence
in
to
secure
he
establishes,
by
the
of
Christ,
which
of belief, that
Christian
victims.
We
imperishability,
and
the
more
does
he
alone
has
any
sacred
books.
But
God,
have
upon
the
life,
or
are
listened
to
with
The
wit-
the human
the
fine
sense
of
the
conscience."
t
interpolation
be
erased
from
the
on
their
side
tri-
Apology
chain
of
thought.
Its
 
which he
miss
that
soft
laid
much
stress.
The
with
the
external
evidence,
are
devoted
to
a
virulent
this,
that
he
relationship
between
it
and
if in
Thy
ser-
vants;
 
all native
Cr.^nity,
to
it
sinks
it
deeper
in
the
slough
into
which
religion
same
materials
less
religions
of
so
bitterly
complains,
and
against
fine
abode
in
through
originally
animal
brings
with
it
brute, more
the
a
crime,
and
infamy
were sent
form. What
race, or, rather, that it has
been
prepared
to
be
the
our
actual
degradation
this
degrada-
tion
by
him
represented.
The
through
the
concluding
from a
deep-seated and
universal disease
of
mighty
impulses
towards
good.
uphold-
ing.
wrapt
in
please
his
for
 
Apology
recognise the divine
tent
to
rise
there any truth,
comprehend infinite truth
charge
of
scepticism,
in the
evidence not
gained
which Arnobius
man
in them rather
of the
simple word
of command
assure
us
that
the
dryshod
in
the
ceased
first
abundant
reasons
appointed
by
the
apostles
of
the
were
of
to the
step
by
step.
After
of
heresies
doubt,
Rothe
lent
his
extensive
Nitri,
of
subject.
To
in
the
dpxovra
rov
aiwvoQTi)
TcapOtvia,
"Homilia,"
other passage
Syriac
may
himself,
if
with
the
Syriac,
seems
to
five
chapters
making
use
of
the
occasion
to
lay
down
palpable
at
the
end
of
the
Epistle.
theme
after
the
manner
of
 
character
of
far
greater
antiquity
than
the
Jesus
Christ
leads
century,
good
disciples,"
it
most evil."
of
the
Apostolic
successor
of
Ignatius.
established
source. The
doctrine
of
is
book.
The
Rome, and in
treating the subject
the "Philosophoumena" from the
substantial
evidence,
or
teacher in the third
we
copyist
opinions
on one main point. We
know
what
eternal
second
under
Zephyrinus
brought
out
It would
they
ascribe
to
the
fiery
teacher
of
Carthage,
representative
only
of
moderation
and
wisdom,
fifth
book
certain analogy
the Son
even
then
power,
indignation,
and
sublime
imagination,
"
this
manuscript
is
really
from
the
pen
book which
of the
of the
treatise on
"
|
the same
last and
the
objections urged by
how
have spoken
of the
the episcopate
of Rome,
220-221,
629;
40.
Irenaeus,
tianity,
449
attributes
that
are
incommunicable,
609.
The
existence
of
not
heavenly
gifts,
613.
His
pa-
rody
615.
tius,
634.
54-
BuNSEN.
Gauls,
56.
council
Pagans,
191
Gaul,
255.
The

"
to
Justin,
591.
OzANAM.
religion among
Scriptures,
468.
Pliny.