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Deuxième Apologie

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Romains, il s'est passé dernièrement dans notre ville des choses étranges, sous Urbicus, et partout nous voyons de semblables injustices commises parles magistrats. C'est ce qui m'a forcé de vous adresser ce discours dans votre intérêt, car vous êtes des êtres de même nature que nous et nos frères, quand même vous ne le sauriez pas et quand même vous ne le voudriez pas à cause de la haute opinion que l'on a de vous. [2] Partout, ceux qui méritent d'être repris par un père, un voisin, un fils, un ami, un frère, un mari, une femme ; tous, si l'on excepte ceux qui croient que les méchants et les intempérants seront punis dans le feu éternel et que les bons qui ont vécu selon le Christ seront heureux avec Dieu, nous voulons dire les chrétiens ; ceux donc qui méritent d'être repris pour leur obstination, leur amour des plaisirs, leur répugnance à se plier à la vertu, et en outre les démons, nos ennemis, qui ont sous leur main et à leur service ces juges, ces magistrats animés de leurs fureurs, tous veulent notre mort. [3] Mais, pour bien vous faire connaître la cause de ce qui se passa sous Urbicus, je vais vous raconter le fait.

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The Second Apology of Justin for the Christians Addressed to the Roman Senate

Chapter I.--Introduction.

Romans, the things which have recently 1 happened in your city under Urbicus, 2 and the things which are likewise being everywhere unreasonably done by the governors, have compelled me to frame this composition for your sakes, who are men of like passions, and brethren, though ye know it not, and though ye be unwilling to acknowledge it on account of your glorying in what you esteem dignities. 3 For everywhere, whoever is corrected by father, or neighbour, or child, or friend, or brother, or husband, or wife, for a fault, for being hard to move, for loving pleasure and being hard to urge to what is right (except those who have been persuaded that the unjust and intemperate shall be punished in eternal fire, but that the virtuous and those who lived like Christ shall dwell with God in a state that is free from suffering,--we mean, those who have become Christians), and the evil demons, who hate us, and who keep such men as these subject to themselves, and serving them in the capacity of judges, incite them, as rulers actuated by evil spirits, to put us to death. But that the cause of all that has taken place under Urbicus may become quite plain to you, I will relate what has been done.


  1. Literally, "both yesterday and the day before." ↩

  2. [See Grabe's note on the conjecture of Valesius that this prefect was Lollius Urbicus, the historian (vol. i. p. 1. and notes, p. 1).] ↩

  3. [He has addressed them as "Romans," because in this they gloried together,--emperor, senate, soldiers, and citizens.] ↩

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