The Apology (Apologeticus)
Tertullian · 197 · Before the division · public-domain-translation
6 claims in this dataset rest on this source.
Sentences remembered from it
- Tertullian ANF III, Apology, Chapter L
- Tertullian ANF III, Apology, Chapter XXXVII
- Tertullian ANF III, Apology, Chapter XL
- Tertullian ANF III, Apology, Chapter XVIII
- Tertullian ANF III, Apology, Chapter XXXIX
- Tertullian ANF III, Apology, Chapter XVII
The defence of the Christians addressed to the provincial governors of Africa about 197 — the first great work of Latin Christian prose, and the book that gave the West its vocabulary for the argument. It answers the charges of atheism, incest, cannibalism and disloyalty in turn, and closes with the sentence everything else in it is remembered for: that persecution multiplies the persecuted.