The Church Fathers · c. 180
To Autolycus
Ad Autolycum
Theophilus of Antioch · d. c. 183
What it is
Three books to a sceptical friend: on why God is seen only by the pure in heart, on the folly of the poets, and on the greater antiquity of Moses, with a chronology from creation.
Why it lasted
The first surviving Christian use of the word Trinity, and the earliest Christian commentary on the opening of Genesis.
Scripture it works from
Where to read it
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