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 1 I      |           charges made against the Christians; if in this case alone you
 2 II     |            undefended and unheard. Christians alone are forbidden to say
 3 II     |    province, having condemned some Christians to death, and driven some
 4 II     |        this Trajan wrote back that Christians were by no means to be sought
 5 II     |      torture to make them confess--Christians alone you torture, to make
 6 II     |         ours no more if we do what Christians never do), it is made perfectly
 7 III    |      libidinous!--they have become Christians!" So the hated name is given
 8 III    |          less value than hatred of Christians. Well now, if there is this
 9 IV     |         this way all may know that Christians are free from the very crimes
10 V      |        against all accusers of the Christians. Consult your histories;
11 V      |         through the prayers of the Christians who chanced to be fighting
12 V      |          by public law remove from Christians their legal disabilities,
13 V      |          made naught by forbidding Christians to be sought after; which
14 VI     |      consuls Piso and Gabinius, no Christians surely, forbade Serapis,
15 VII    |        executioner, in the case of Christians, a duty the very opposite
16 VII    |          for the future? If, then, Christians are not themselves the publishers
17 VII    |       alone aware of the crimes of Christians. This is the witness you
18 VIII   |          the kind being imputed to Christians, or they would certainly
19 VIII   |           other? What if there are Christians with no Christian relatives?
20 IX     |          in secret. It is not only Christians, you see, who despise you;
21 IX     |           from those you accuse us Christians of? And do those, who, with
22 IX     |          your vile ways before the Christians, who have not even the blood
23 IX     |          single example, you tempt Christians with sausages of blood,
24 IX     |           should apply to discover Christians, as well as the fire-pan
25 IX     |            have no existence among Christians. The same eyes would tell
26 X      |        punishment even were due to Christians, if it were made plain that
27 XII    |          we do themselves. You put Christians on crosses and stakes: what
28 XII    |      gibbet. You tear the sides of Christians with your claws; but in
29 XV     |            complain of you than of Christians. It is certainly among the
30 XV     |    sacrilege are always found, for Christians do not enter your temples
31 XVI    |        inscription: The God of the Christians, born of an ass. He had
32 XVIII  |            men are made, not born, Christians. The preachers of whom we
33 XXI    |     necessary for the world, or if Christians could have been Caesars.
34 XXI    |           if, to give you faith in Christians, I can bring forward the
35 XXIII  |            is put in subjection to Christians; and you surely can never
36 XXIII  |            He and He alone whom we Christians own; as also whether you
37 XXIII  |       dread alarms, making all but Christians wail--as the Power of God,
38 XXIII  |        them also with the blood of Christians. On no account, then, would
39 XXIII  |          lest some day or other as Christians you might put them to the
40 XXV    |         imperial decease, that the Christians might have no occasion to
41 XXXI   |         enemies and persecutors of Christians, than the very parties with
42 XXXIII |    reverence and sacred respect of Christians to the emperor, whom we
43 XXXV   |           is the reason, then, why Christians are counted public enemies:
44 XXXV   |    themselves worse than we wicked Christians! I appeal to the inhabitants
45 XXXV   |           they demand the death of Christians. Of course, then, the other
46 XXXV   |             that is, they were not Christians. Yet all of them, on the
47 XXXV   |            in the habit of calling Christians enemies of the state. Yes,
48 XXXV   |      sinned, and forbidden by God, Christians do not even make use of
49 XXXVII |         inflict gross cruelties on Christians, partly because it is your
50 XXXVII |           is the immense number of Christians which makes your enemies
51 XXXVIII|                 XXXVIII.~Ought not Christians, therefore, to receive not
52 XXXIX  |       wonder if that great love of Christians towards one another is desecrated
53 XXXIX  |          modest supper-room of the Christians alone a great ado is made.
54 XXXIX  |            the congregation of the Christians its due, and hold it unlawful,
55 XL     |          plea, that they think the Christians the cause of every public
56 XL     |         the cry is, "Away with the Christians to the lion!" What! shall
57 XL     |           where--I do not say were Christians, those despisers of your
58 XL     |            had the race from which Christians sprung yet settled down
59 XL     |            Campania to complain of Christians in the days when fire from
60 XL     |           in ancient times, before Christians were so much as spoken of.
61 XL     |        lightly now, since God gave Christians to the world; for from that
62 XLI    |         act, if, on account of the Christians, they send trouble on their
63 XLI    |        clear of the punishments of Christians. But this, you say, hits
64 XLII   |          largely in the burying of Christians as in the fumigating of
65 XLII   | acknowledge a debt of gratitude to Christians; for in the faithfulness
66 XLIII  |            a sense may complain of Christians that they are a sterile
67 XLIII  |         But it is a noble fruit of Christians, that they have no fruits
68 XLIV   |           a Christian too? Or when Christians are brought before you on
69 XLVI   |           called philosophers, not Christians. This name of philosopher
70 XLVI   |       caring for nought but glory, Christians both intensely and intimately
71 XLVI   |            we count them no longer Christians; but the philosophers who
72 XLVII  |            that people might think Christians unworthy of credit because
73 L      |        people if you sacrifice the Christians at their wish, kill us,
74 L      |       number we grow; the blood of Christians is seed. Many of your writers
75 L      |          find so many disciples as Christians do, teachers not by words,