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| Chapter I.—Reasons for addressing the Greeks.
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Chapter I.—Reasons for addressing the
Greeks.
As I begin this hortatory address
to you, ye men of Greece, I pray God that I may know what I ought to say
to you, and that you, shaking off your habitual2507
| 2507 Literally, “former.”
| love of disputing, and being delivered from the error of your
fathers, may now choose what is profitable; not fancying that you commit
any offence against your forefathers, though the things which you
formerly considered by no means salutary should now seem useful to you.
For accurate investigation of matters, putting truth to the question with
a more searching scrutiny, often reveals that things which have passed
for excellent are of quite another sort. Since, then, we propose to
discourse of the true religion (than which, I think, there is nothing
which is counted more valuable by those who desire to pass through life
without danger, on account of the judgment which is to be after the
termination of this life, and which is announced not only by our
forefathers according to God, to wit the prophets and lawgivers, but also
by those among yourselves who have been esteemed wise, not poets alone,
but also philosophers, who professed among you that they had attained the
true and divine knowledge), I think it well first of all to examine the
teachers of religion, both our own and yours, who they were, and how
great, and in what times they lived; in order that those who have
formerly received from their fathers the false religion, may now, when
they perceive this, be extricated from that inveterate error; and that we
may clearly and manifestly show that we ourselves follow the religion of
our forefathers according to God.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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