Hortatory Address to the Greeks
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
Contents (38 chapters)
- 1. Chapter I.—Reasons for addressing the Greeks.
- 2. Chapter II—The poets are unfit to be religious teachers.
- 3. Chapter III.—Opinions of the school of Thales.
- 4. Chapter IV.—Opinions of Pythagoras and Epicurus.
- 5. Chapter V.—Opinions of Plato and Aristotle.
- 6. Chapter VI.—Further disagreements between Plato and Aristotle.
- 7. Chapter VII.—Inconsistencies of Plato’s doctrine.
- 8. Chapter VIII.—Antiquity, inspiration, and harmony of Christian teachers.
- 9. Chapter IX.—The antiquity of Moses proved by Greek writers.
- 10. Chapter X—Training and inspiration of Moses.
- 11. Chapter XI.—Heathen oracles testify of Moses.
- 12. Chapter XII.—Antiquity of Moses proved.
- 13. Chapter XIII.—History of the Septuagint.
- 14. Chapter XIV.—A warning appeal to the Greeks.
- 15. Chapter XV.—Testimony of Orpheus to monotheism.
- 16. Chapter XVI.—Testimony of the Sibyl.
- 17. Chapter XVII.—Testimony of Homer.
- 18. Chapter XVIII.—Testimony of Sophocles.
- 19. Chapter XIX.—Testimony of Pythagoras.
- 20. Chapter XX.—Testimony of Plato.
- 21. Chapter XXI.—The namelessness of God.
- 22. Chapter XXII.—Studied ambiguity of Plato.
- 23. Chapter XXIII.—Plato’s self-contradiction.
- 24. Chapter XXIV.—Agreement of Plato and Homer.
- 25. Chapter XXV.—Plato’s knowledge of God’s eternity.
- 26. Chapter XXVI.—Plato indebted to the prophets.
- 27. Chapter XXVII.—Plato’s knowledge of the judgment.
- 28. Chapter XXVIII.—Homer’s obligations to the sacred writers.
- 29. Chapter XXIX.—Origin of Plato’s doctrine of form.
- 30. Chapter XXX.—Homer’s knowledge of man’s origin.
- 31. Chapter XXXI.—Further proof of Plato’s acquaintance with Scripture.
- 32. Chapter XXXII.—Plato’s doctrine of the heavenly gift.
- 33. Chapter XXXIII.—Plato’s idea of the beginning of time drawn from Moses.
- 34. Chapter XXXIV.—Whence men attributed to God human form.
- 35. Chapter XXXV.—Appeal to the Greeks.
- 36. Chapter XXXVI.—True knowledge not held by the philosophers.
- 37. Chapter XXXVII.—Of the Sibyl.
- 38. Chapter XXXVIII.—Concluding appeal.
Source: CCEL