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Apology of Aristides on Behalf of the Christians: From a Syriac Ms. Preserved on Mount Sinai, The
Aristides Translated by J. Rendel Harris

Number of quotes: 5


Book ID: 423 Page: 8

Section: 4A

...followed by another introduction which cannot be anything else than a part of the primitive apology. It runs as follows:

...Caesar Titus Hadrianus Antoninus, Worshipful and Clement, from Marcianus Aristides, philosopher of Athens.

The additional information which we derive from this sentence is a sufficient guarantee of its genuineness; we have the first name of the philosopher given, as Marcianus; and we have the name of the emperor addressed given at length. To our astonishment this is not Hadrian, but his successor Antoninus Pius, who bears the name of Hadrian by adoption from Publius Aelius Haadrianus.

Quote ID: 8630

Time Periods: 2


Book ID: 423 Page: 35

Section: 4A

PJ NOTE: Aristides calls Hadrian “king” at least 17 times.

Quote ID: 8631

Time Periods: 2


Book ID: 423 Page: 36

Section: 4B

This is plain to you, O king, that there are four races of men in this world; Barbarians and Greeks, Jews and Christians.

Quote ID: 8632

Time Periods: 2


Book ID: 423 Page: 39

Section: 2B

So too those have erred who have thought concerning the sun that he is God.

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Wherefore it is not possible that the sun should be God, but a work of God; and in like manner also the moon and stars.

PJ Note: St. Aristides delivered the Apology around the year 125, when Hadrian visited Athens [Eusebius, H.E. IV, iii]. 

Quote ID: 8633

Time Periods: 2


Book ID: 423 Page: 48/49

Section: 4A

Now the Christians, O king, by going about and seeking have found the truth, and as we have comprehended from their writings they are nearer to the truth and to exact knowledge than the rest of the peoples.

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…they honour father and mother; they do good to those who are their neighbors, and when they are judges, they judge uprightly….

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…and from the widows they do not turn away their countenance and they rescue the orphan from him who does him violence and he who has gives to him who has not, without grudging; and when they see the stranger they bring him to their dwellings, and rejoice over him as over a true brother; for they do not call brothers those who are after the flesh, but those who are in the spirit and in God but when one of their poor passes away from the world, and any of them sees him, then he provides for his burial according to his ability, and if they hear that any of their number is imprisoned or oppressed for the name of their Messiah, all of them provide for his needs, and if it is possible that he may be delivered, they deliver him.

And if there is among them a man that is poor and needy, and they have not an abundance of necessaries, they fast two or three days that they may supply the needy with their necessary food.

Quote ID: 8634

Time Periods: 23



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