have some secret sense that they are unjust, when they refuse to hear what, once heard, they cannot condemn. 4This, then, is the first plea we lodge with you—the injustice of your hatred of the Christian name. The very excuse that seems to acquit it, at once aggravates and convicts that injustice—to wit, ignorance. For what could be more unjust than for men to hate a thing they do not know, even though it really deserves hatred? It can only deserve hatred when it is known whether it does deserve