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The Apologies of Justin Martyr, to which is Appended the Epistle to Diognetus is unavailable, but you can change that!

This volume contains the Greek text of Justin Martyr's first and second Apologies, and the Epistle to Diognetus. Gildersleeve includes over 150 pages of notes and analysis, and the book offers three useful indexes: a Greek index, a subject index, and an index of Scripture references found in each text.

Justin from the shades of the Academy into the dust and sun of Christian warfare. The conversion seems electric, but most conversions, ancient and modern, are so represented; and we learn from another passage that Justin had long felt the power of the Christian life as shown in the steadfastness of Christian confessors, the holy boldness and holy joy of Christian martyrs. As after his conversion he did not trample on the philosopher’s mantle, and cherished all that was
Pages xi–xii