1 Rulers of the Roman Empire, if, seated for the administration of
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2 If, again, it is certain that we are the most wicked of men, why do you
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3 What are we to think of it, that most people so blindly knock their
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4 And so, having made these remarks as it were by way of preface, that I
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5 To say a word about the origin of laws of the kind to which we now
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6 I would now have these most religious protectors and vindicators of the
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7 Monsters of wickedness, we are accused of observing a holy rite in
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8 See now, we set before you the reward of these enormities. They give
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9 That I may refute more thoroughly these charges, I will show that in
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10 You do not worship the gods," you say; "and you do not offer
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11 And since, as you dare not deny that these deities of yours once were
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12 But I pass from these remarks, for I know and I am going to show what
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13 But they are gods to us," you say. And how is it, then, that in utter
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14 I wish now to review your sacred rites; and I pass no censure on your
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15 Others of your writers, in their wantonness, even minister to your
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16 For, like some others, you are under the delusion that our god is an
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17 The object of our worship is the One God, [101] He who by His
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18 But, that we might attain an ampler and more authoritative knowledge at
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19 Their high antiquity, first of all, claims authority for these
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20 To make up for our delay in this, we bring under your notice something
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21 But having asserted that our religion is supported by the writings of
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22 And we affirm indeed the existence of certain spiritual essences; nor
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23 Moreover, if sorcerers call forth ghosts, and even make what seem the
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24 This whole confession of these beings, in which they declare that they
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25 I think I have offered sufficient proof upon the question of false and
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26 Examine then, and see if He be not the dispenser of kingdoms, who is
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27 Enough has been said in these remarks to confute the charge of treason
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28 But as it was easily seen to be unjust to compel freemen against their
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29 Let it be made clear, then, first of all, if those to whom sacrifice is
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30 For we offer prayer for the safety of our princes to the eternal, the
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31 But we merely, you say, flatter the emperor, and feign these prayers of
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32 There is also another and a greater necessity for our offering prayer
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33 But why dwell longer on the reverence and sacred respect of Christians
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34 Augustus, the founder of the empire, would not even have the title
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35 This is the reason, then, why Christians are counted public enemies
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36 If it is the fact that men bearing the name of Romans are found to be
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37 If we are enjoined, then, to love our enemies, as I have remarked
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38 Ought not Christians, therefore, to receive not merely a somewhat
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39 I shall at once go on, then, to exhibit the peculiarities of the
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40 On the contrary, they deserve the name of faction who conspire to bring
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41 You, therefore, are the sources of trouble in human affairs; on you
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42 But we are called to account as harm-doers on another [138] ground, and
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43 I will confess, however, without hesitation, that there are some who in
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44 Yes, and no one considers what the loss is to the common weal,--a loss
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45 We, then, alone are without crime. Is there ought wonderful in that, if
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46 We have sufficiently met, as I think, the accusation of the various
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47 Unless I am utterly mistaken, there is nothing so old as the truth; and
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48 Come now, if some philosopher affirms, as Laberius holds, following an
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49 These are what are called presumptuous speculations in our case alone
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50 In that case, you say, why do you complain of our persecutions? You
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