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1. As it was your desire, my beloved brother Theophilus, to be thoroughly informed on those topics which I put summarily before you, I have thought it right to set these matters of inquiry [...]

To the Emperors Marcus Aurelius Anoninus and Lucius Aurelius Commodus, conquerors of Armenia and Sarmatia, and more than all, philosophers. CHAP. I.-INJUSTICE SHOWN TOWARDS THE CHRISTIANS. [...]

CHAP. I.-DEFENCE OF THE TRUTH SHOULD PRECEDE DISCUSSIONS REGARDING IT. BY the side of every opinion and doctrine which agrees with the truth of things, there springs up some falsehood; and [...]

Preface. In the four preceding books, my very dear friend, which I put forth to thee, all the heretics have been exposed, and their doctrines brought to light, and these men refuted who have [...]

Preface. 1. By transmitting to thee, my very dear friend, this fourth book of the work which is [entitled] The Detection and Refuation of False Knowledge, I shall, as I have promised, add weight, [...]

Preface. Thou hast indeed enjoined upon me, my very dear friend, that I should bring to light the Valentinian doctrines, concealed, as their votaries imagine; that I should exhibit their [...]

Preface. 1. In the first book, which immediately precedes this, exposing “knowledge falsely so called,” I showed thee, my very dear friend, that the whole system devised, in many and [...]

Preface. 1. Inasmuch as certain men have set the truth aside, and bring in lying words and vain genealogies, which, as the apostle says, “minister questions rather than godly edifying which [...]

I. INTRODUCTION Things in themselves so supremely great, so far above man, so utterly above our perishable nature, as to be impossible for the race of rational mortals to grasp, as the will of [...]

CHAP. I.-THAT THE SCRIPTURES ARE DIVINELY INSPIRED. 1. But as it is not sufficient, in the discussion of matters of such importance, to entrust the decision to the human senses and to the [...]