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1 I | your hatred to the name of Christian is unjust. And the very 2 I | to the profession of the Christian faith; and yet for all, 3 I | is there like this in the Christian's case? The only shame or 4 I | is at not having been a Christian earlier. If he is pointed 5 II | should bring to light some Christian who had devoured a hundred 6 II | confederates and accessories. The Christian alone must not be sought, 7 II | at your hands. "I am a Christian," the man cries out. He 8 II | deny. Well, you think the Christian a man of every crime, an 9 II | laugh at your hostility, a Christian as much as ever? Seeing, 10 II | tablet-lists that such a man is a Christian? Why not also that he is 11 II | is a murderer? And if a Christian is a murderer, why not guilty, 12 II | crimes-If to be called a "Christian" does not imply any crime, 13 III | against the hatred of the Christian name; that when they bear 14 III | Seius, only that he is a Christian." So another, "I am astonished 15 III | should have suddenly become a Christian." Nobody thinks it needful 16 III | very account that he is a Christian; or a Christian, for the 17 III | he is a Christian; or a Christian, for the reason that he 18 III | before they took the name of Christian, they had known as loose, 19 III | scurrilous, or unchaste? But Christian, so far as the meaning of 20 V | accordingly, in whose days the Christian name made its entry into 21 V | with the imperial sword the Christian sect, making profess then 22 V | single persecutor of the Christian name. So far from that, 23 VIII | yourself as well as the Christian: if you cannot do it, you 24 VIII | believe it of others, for a Christian is a man as well as you. 25 VIII | there are Christians with no Christian relatives? He will not be 26 IX | murder. O Jove, thyself a Christian, and in truth only son of 27 IX | crowding around and gaping for Christian blood,--how many even of 28 XVII | testimony of the soul by nature Christian! Then, too, in using such 29 XXI | Christ; and now in fact a Christian in his own convictions, 30 XXI | sword sowed the seed of Christian blood at Rome. Yes, and 31 XXIII | their fear of lying to a Christian, that they were demons, 32 XXX | the very attitude of a Christian praying is one of preparation 33 XXXV | foreign to the lips of a Christian as it is out of keeping 34 XXXVII | they do not even spare the Christian dead, but tear them, now 35 XXXVIII| pleasure--I mean equanimity the Christian, on his part, has many such 36 XXXIX | the peculiarities of the Christian society, that, as I have 37 XLIV | name entered as being a Christian too? Or when Christians 38 XLIV | the occasion. You find no Christian there, except simply as 39 XLIV | there as something else, a Christian he is no longer.~ 40 XLVI | fierce demands are made for Christian blood. We have made a full 41 XLVI | in vain? There is not a Christian workman but finds out God, 42 XLVI | corrupter of youth. The Christian confines himself to the 43 XLVI | the adulterous act. The Christian husband has nothing to do 44 XLVI | his incontinence. But a Christian with grace-healed eyes is 45 XLVI | influence of another pride: the Christian does not even play the proud 46 XLVI | of the supreme power: the Christian does not aspire to the aedileship. 47 XLVI | emendation of his laws: the Christian, even when he is condemned, 48 XLVI | deposit of his enemies: the Christian is noted for his fidelity 49 XLVI | Hermias from his place: the Christian does no harm even to his 50 XLVI | plots against the state: no Christian ever attempted such a thing 51 XLVI | any likeness between the Christian and the philosopher? between 52 XLVII | adulterated our new-given Christian revelation, and corrupted 53 XLVIII | ancestor of his? But if a Christian promises the return of a 54 XLIX | own inclination, being a Christian. Your condemnation, then, 55 L | lately, in condemning a Christian woman to the law rather