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The Apology

Contrasts Christian life with pagan religion and presents the Christian people as a community shaped by truth and charity.

Aristidesc. AD 124-1252nd century

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ApologeticsPublic WitnessMonotheismChristian Ethics
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Overview

Category
Apologists
Genre
Apology
Tradition
Cross-Tradition
Region
Athens
Original language
Greek (with Syriac witness)
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Manuscript context

This text is represented here through a composite Greek (with Syriac witness) witness set associated with Aristides and its transmission in Athens. Approved translation support is available in English, Spanish, and Indonesian.

Themes

ApologeticsPublic WitnessMonotheismChristian Ethics

Controversies

  • Pagan accusations against Christians

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Witness status: Composite witness set

Composite witness reconstructed from public-domain OCR: Greek section and Syriac section extracted from J. Rendel Harris, The Apology of Aristides (1891).

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  • Apology of Aristides (Greek section OCR extract)

    License: Public Domain Mark 1.0

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  • Apology of Aristides (Syriac section OCR extract)

    License: Public Domain Mark 1.0

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  • Patrologia Graeca OCR corpus (Aristides, Fragmenta)

    License: No license declared (source text is historical/public-domain material)

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The Apology