The Second Apology and Dialogue with Trypho, a Jew

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. CHAP. II. — URBICUS CONDEMNS THE CHRISTIANS TO DEATH. A certain woman lived with an intemperate ■» husband ; she herself, too, having formerly been intemperate. But when she came to the knowledge of the teachings of Christ she became sober-minded, and endeavoured to persuade her IJ Literally, " both yesterday and the day before." = [See Grabe's note on the conjecture of Valesius that this prelect was LoUius Urbicus, the historian (vol. i. p. i, and notes, p. i).] 3 [He has addressed them as " Romans," because in this they gloried together, — emperor, senate, soldiers, and citizens.] * aito.\a<TTa.ifoi'ri, which word includes unchastity, as well as the other form.…