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The Apology Against the Arians

Athanasius of Alexandria · c. AD 349

Patrologia Graeca, vol. 25 (Migne) — manuscript witness to The Apology Against the Arians
Patrologia Graeca, vol. 25 (Migne) — 1857Eastern Orthodox St. Fathers · Public domain · Commons
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Patrologia Graeca, vol. 25 (Migne) — manuscript witness to The Apology Against the Arians

Patrologia Graeca, vol. 25 (Migne) — 1857Eastern Orthodox St. Fathers · Public domain · Commons

What this text is

Athanasius's documentary self-defence — the acquittals of Rome and Sardica, Julius's great letter to the Easterns, and the unravelling of the Arsenius 'murder' with the living man produced in court.

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Public-domain translations

A. Robertson (NPNF, 1892)

Are you ignorant that the custom has been for word to be written first to us, and then for a just decision to be passed from this place?… What we have received from the blessed Apostle Peter, that I signify to you. (Julius of Rome, Letter to the Easterns.)

Manuscript witnesses

Athanasian corpus manuscripts

10th c. onward

The Apologia contra Arianos with its dossier of synodal letters — the archive of the Arian struggle.

PRINCIPAL WITNESSES

Patrologia Graeca, vol. 25 (Migne)

1857

Standard pre-critical text of the corpus.

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Provenance

Alexandria, c. AD 349 — the documentary self-defence

Editions & scholarship

Critical editions and standard translations behind the text above.

Figures named in this text (9)

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