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To Autolycus
St. Theophilus of Antioch · 2nd century
A pagan friend challenged St. Theophilus, bishop of Antioch: show me your God. In three short books he answers, explains creation from Genesis and shows how old the prophets are next to the Greek poets.
It is the first Christian writing we know of to use the word Trinity.
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About this edition
From the Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 2 (1885), edited by Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson.
This translation is in the public domain. We took the text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library and left out the editors’ footnotes.
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