Apology

1 Preface. 2 Introductory Note. 3 Chapter I. Translated by the Rev. 4 Chapter II. If, again, it is certain that we are the most wicked of men 5 Chapter III. What are we to think of it, that most people so blindly knock their heads 6 Chapter IV. And so, having made these remarks as it were by way of preface 7 Chapter V. To say a word about the origin of laws of the kind to which we 8 Chapter VI. I would now have these most religious protectors and vindicators of the laws and institutions 9 Chapter VII. Monsters of wickedness, we are accused of observing a holy rite in which we kill 10 Chapter VIII. See now, we set before you the reward of these enormities. 11 Chapter IX. That I may refute more thoroughly these charges, I will show that in part openly 12 Chapter X. |You do not worship the gods,| you say; |and you do not offer sacrifices for 13 Chapter XI. And since, as you dare not deny that these deities of yours once were men 14 Chapter XII. But I pass from these remarks, for I know and I am going to show 15 Chapter XIII. |But they are gods to us,| you say. 16 Chapter XIV. I wish now to review your sacred rites; and I pass no censure on your 17 Chapter XV. Others of your writers, in their wantonness, even minister to your pleasures by vilifying the 18 Chapter XVI. For, like some others, you are under the delusion that our god is an ass's 19 Chapter XVII. The object of our worship is the One God 20 Chapter XVIII. But, that we might attain an ampler and more authoritative knowledge at once of Himself 21 Chapter XIX. Their high antiquity, first of all, claims authority for these writings. 22 Chapter XX. To make up for our delay in this, we bring under your notice something of 23 Chapter XXI. But having asserted that our religion is supported by the writings of the Jews 24 Chapter XXII. And we affirm indeed the existence of certain spiritual essences 25 Chapter XXIII. Moreover, if sorcerers call forth ghosts, and even make what seem the souls of the 26 Chapter XXIV. This whole confession of these beings, in which they declare that they are not gods 27 Chapter XXV. I think I have offered sufficient proof upon the question of FALSE and TRUE divinity 28 Chapter XXVI. Examine then, and see if He be not the dispenser of kingdoms 29 Chapter XXVII. Enough has been said in these remarks to confute the charge of treason against your 30 Chapter XXVIII. But as it was easily seen to be unjust to compel freemen against their will 31 Chapter XXIX. Let it be made clear, then, first of all 32 Chapter XXX. For we offer prayer for the safety of our princes to the eternal 33 Chapter XXXI. But we merely, you say, flatter the emperor, and feign these prayers of ours to 34 Chapter XXXII. There is also another and a greater necessity for our offering prayer in behalf of 35 Chapter XXXIII. But why dwell longer on the reverence and sacred respect of Christians to the emperor 36 Chapter XXXIV. Augustus, the founder of the empire, would not even have the title Lord 37 Chapter XXXV. This is the reason, then, why Christians are counted public enemies 38 Chapter XXXVI. If it is the fact that men bearing the name of Romans are found to 39 Chapter XXXVII. If we are enjoined, then, to love our enemies 40 Chapter XXXVIII. Ought not Christians, therefore, to receive not merely a somewhat milder treatment 41 Chapter XXXIX. I shall at once go on, then, to exhibit the peculiarities of the Christian society 42 Chapter XL. On the contrary, they deserve the name of faction who conspire to bring odium on 43 Chapter XLI. You, therefore, are the sources of trouble in human affairs 44 Chapter XLII. But we are called to account as harm-doers on another ground 45 Chapter XLIII. I will confess, however, without hesitation, that there are some who in a sense may 46 Chapter XLIV. Yes, and no one considers what the loss is to the common weal 47 Chapter XLV. We, then, alone are without crime. 48 Chapter XLVI. We have sufficiently met, as I think, the accusation of the various crimes on the 49 Chapter XLVII. Unless I am utterly mistaken, there is nothing so old as the truth 50 Chapter XLVIII. Come now, if some philosopher affirms, as Laberius holds 51 Chapter XLIX. These are what are called presumptuous speculations in our case alone 52 Chapter L. In that case, you say, why do you complain of our persecutions? You ought rather 53 Elucidations.