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Theophilus
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Introductory Note to Theophilus of Antioch
Chapter XIV.—Of Loving Our Enemies.
Chapter XV.—The Innocence of the Christians Defended.
[670] At the theatres. [N.B.—Let the easy Christians of our age be reminded of this warning; frequenting, as they do, plays and operas equally defiling, impure in purport often, even when not gross in language.]
Chapter XVI.—Uncertain Conjectures of the Philosophers.
[671] i.e., tracing back its history through an infinate duration.
[672] The following quotation is not from the Republic, but from the third book of the Laws, p. 676.
[673] Plato goes on to say, that if he had this pledge of divine assistance, he would go further in his speculation; and therefore Theophilus argues that what he said without this assistance he felt to be unsafe.
Chapter XVII.—Accurate Information of the Christians.
[674] Literally, “contained.”
[675] [See supra, book i. cap. 14, p. 93, the author’s account of his own conversion.]
Chapter XVIII.—Errors of the Greeks About the Deluge.
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