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INTRODUCTION ORE GREEK TEXT of the De Monarchza is preserved in the Codex Paris. gr. 450, of the year 1364, and in the Codex Claromont. 82, of 1541. It had also been in the Strassburg manuscript (Cod. gr. 9, of the thirteenth century) which was destroyed in the fire of 1870. The purpose of this short treatise was to prove monotheism from the writings of Greek literature. Consequently, the author quoted the tragedians, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides; the comic writers, Philemon, Orpheus, and Menander ; and the philosophers, Plato and Pythagoras. The manuscripts list this treatise with the writings of St. Justin, and Eusebius (Hist. eccl. 4.18) explicitly attributes it to him. However, Eusebius stated that the De M onarchia he had read proved monotheism with arguments taken from both Sacred Scripture and pagan literature. The treatise we now have uses proofs taken only from pagan sources. Consequently , there is considerable doubt concerning the authorship of this treatise. It was probably composed in the third centuryl when such great use was made of those falsified verses of Greek poetry. The texts used for this translation are those of Migne, PC 6.312-325, and of J. C. T. von Otto, Corpus Apologetarum Christianorum saeculi secundi (Jena 1879) III 126-158. 1 Cf. G. Bardy, 'Justin' Diet. theol. calh. 8.2240, and J. M. Semisch, lac. cit. J63.16i. 439 CONTENTS Chapter Page 1 Plan of the treatise . . 443 2 Proof of the unity of God • 444 3 Future judgment proved from pagan writings. . 447 4 God is not appeased by pagan libations . 448 5 The vanity of false gods . 450 6 The One True God alone should be worshipped. • 454 441 ...

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