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- Title Page
- Preface.
- Introductory Note.
- Chapter I. Translated by the Rev.
- Chapter II. If, again, it is certain that we are the most wicked of men
- Chapter III. What are we to think of it, that most people so blindly knock their heads
- Chapter IV. And so, having made these remarks as it were by way of preface
- Chapter V. To say a word about the origin of laws of the kind to which we
- Chapter VI. I would now have these most religious protectors and vindicators of the laws and institutions
- Chapter VII. Monsters of wickedness, we are accused of observing a holy rite in which we kill
- Chapter VIII. See now, we set before you the reward of these enormities.
- Chapter IX. That I may refute more thoroughly these charges, I will show that in part openly
- Chapter X. |You do not worship the gods,| you say; |and you do not offer sacrifices for
- Chapter XI. And since, as you dare not deny that these deities of yours once were men
- Chapter XII. But I pass from these remarks, for I know and I am going to show
- Chapter XIII. |But they are gods to us,| you say.
- Chapter XIV. I wish now to review your sacred rites; and I pass no censure on your
- Chapter XV. Others of your writers, in their wantonness, even minister to your pleasures by vilifying the
- Chapter XVI. For, like some others, you are under the delusion that our god is an ass's
- Chapter XVII. The object of our worship is the One God
- Chapter XVIII. But, that we might attain an ampler and more authoritative knowledge at once of Himself
- Chapter XIX. Their high antiquity, first of all, claims authority for these writings.
- Chapter XX. To make up for our delay in this, we bring under your notice something of
- Chapter XXI. But having asserted that our religion is supported by the writings of the Jews
- Chapter XXII. And we affirm indeed the existence of certain spiritual essences
- Chapter XXIII. Moreover, if sorcerers call forth ghosts, and even make what seem the souls of the
- Chapter XXIV. This whole confession of these beings, in which they declare that they are not gods
- Chapter XXV. I think I have offered sufficient proof upon the question of FALSE and TRUE divinity
- Chapter XXVI. Examine then, and see if He be not the dispenser of kingdoms
- Chapter XXVII. Enough has been said in these remarks to confute the charge of treason against your
- Chapter XXVIII. But as it was easily seen to be unjust to compel freemen against their will
- Chapter XXIX. Let it be made clear, then, first of all
- Chapter XXX. For we offer prayer for the safety of our princes to the eternal
- Chapter XXXI. But we merely, you say, flatter the emperor, and feign these prayers of ours to
- Chapter XXXII. There is also another and a greater necessity for our offering prayer in behalf of
- Chapter XXXIII. But why dwell longer on the reverence and sacred respect of Christians to the emperor
- Chapter XXXIV. Augustus, the founder of the empire, would not even have the title Lord
- Chapter XXXV. This is the reason, then, why Christians are counted public enemies
- Chapter XXXVI. If it is the fact that men bearing the name of Romans are found to
- Chapter XXXVII. If we are enjoined, then, to love our enemies
- Chapter XXXVIII. Ought not Christians, therefore, to receive not merely a somewhat milder treatment
- Chapter XXXIX. I shall at once go on, then, to exhibit the peculiarities of the Christian society
- Chapter XL. On the contrary, they deserve the name of faction who conspire to bring odium on
- Chapter XLI. You, therefore, are the sources of trouble in human affairs
- Chapter XLII. But we are called to account as harm-doers on another ground
- Chapter XLIII. I will confess, however, without hesitation, that there are some who in a sense may
- Chapter XLIV. Yes, and no one considers what the loss is to the common weal
- Chapter XLV. We, then, alone are without crime.
- Chapter XLVI. We have sufficiently met, as I think, the accusation of the various crimes on the
- Chapter XLVII. Unless I am utterly mistaken, there is nothing so old as the truth
- Chapter XLVIII. Come now, if some philosopher affirms, as Laberius holds
- Chapter XLIX. These are what are called presumptuous speculations in our case alone
- Chapter L. In that case, you say, why do you complain of our persecutions? You ought rather
- Elucidations.