The OctaviusPaulist Press, 1974 - 414 pages This work is a defense of Christianity composed in clear and direct imitation of Cicero, by a practicing advocate at Rome of African background, writing within the first third of the third century. + |
Contents
THE PROLOGUE | 49 |
NOTES | 125 |
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS | 127 |
INTRODUCTION | 132 |
TEXT | 160 |
INDEXES | 363 |
1 OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT | 365 |
2 AUTHORS | 367 |
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Page 43 - This has been your custom from the beginning, to do good in manifold ways to all Christians, and to send contributions to the many Churches in every city, in some places relieving the poverty of the needy, and ministering to the Christians in the mines, by the contribution which you have sent from the beginning, preserving the ancestral custom of the Romans, true Romans as you are.