Primary source · Koine Greek
To Autolycus
Theophilus of Antioch · c. AD 180–185
What this text is
Three books for a cultured pagan friend — the first surviving Christian use of the word 'Trinity' (trias), and the famous retort: show me your man, and I will show you my God.
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Interlinear passages
Word-for-word glosses of the original; the complete public-domain translation is linked below.
Book I.2 — the exchange
ΔεῖξόνShowμοιmeτὸνtheἄνθρωπόνmanσου,of youκἀγώand Iσοιto youδείξωwill showτὸνtheΘεόνGodμου.of me
Public-domain translations
Marcus Dods (ANF, 1885)
But if you say, 'Show me thy God,' I would reply, 'Show me yourself, and I also will show you my God.' Show, then, that the eyes of your soul are capable of seeing, and the ears of your heart able to hear.
Manuscript witnesses
Venice, Marcianus gr. 496
11th c.The three books To Autolycus rest on this Venetian codex.
Patrologia Graeca, vol. 6 (Migne)
1857Standard pre-critical text of the corpus.
Provenance
Antioch, c. AD 180–185
Editions & scholarship
Critical editions and standard translations behind the text above.
- Theophilus of Antioch: Ad Autolycum (OECT)Robert M. Grant, 1970Critical text with translation.
- Théophile d'Antioche: Trois livres à Autolycus (SC 20)G. Bardy & J. Sender, 1948Edition with French translation.