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Athenagoras’ lived during the late second century and was one of early Christianity’s remarkable apologists. He supported the apostles’ successors in his writings and defended persecuted Christians, pleading for fair trials on behalf of persecuted Christians before pagan rulers. This volume contains a biography of his life, analysis of his works, as well as Athenagoras’ works Embassy for the...

extirpate us, women and children too; if, that is, any human being could be found thus to live in the manner of beasts. And yet beasts actually refrain from those of their own blood and have intercourse only when nature prompts them to the begetting of offspring, not for mere wantonness: they know moreover who are their helpers.23 If then there be a man who is more savage than the beasts, what punishment should he not undergo, to be worthily punished for such evils? But if these charges are fictions
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