Epistle to Autolycus: Book III
by Theophilus
A third letter arguing from chronology that the Hebrew Scriptures are older than Greek learning.
Chapter I.—Autolycus Not Yet Convinced.Chapter II.—Profane Authors Had No Means of Knowing the Truth.Chapter III.—Their Contradictions.Chapter IV.—How Autolycus Had Been Misled by False Accusations Against the Christians.Chapter V.—Philosophers Inculcate Cannibalism.Chapter VI.—Other Opinions of the Philosophers.Chapter VII.—Varying Doctrine Concerning the Gods.Chapter VIII.—Wickedness Attributed to the Gods by Heathen Writers.Chapter IX.—Christian Doctrine of God and His Law.Chapter X.—Of Humanity to Strangers.Chapter XI.—Of Repentance.Chapter XII.—Of Righteousness.Chapter XIII.—Of Chastity.Chapter XIV.—Of Loving Our Enemies.Chapter XV.—The Innocence of the Christians Defended.Chapter XVI.—Uncertain Conjectures of the Philosophers.Chapter XVII.—Accurate Information of the Christians.Chapter XVIII.—Errors of the Greeks About the Deluge.Chapter XIX.—Accurate Account of the Deluge.Chapter XX.—Antiquity of Moses.Chapter XXI.—Of Manetho’s Inaccuracy.Chapter XXII.—Antiquity of the Temple.Chapter XXIII.—Prophets More Ancient Than Greek Writers.Chapter XXIV.—Chronology from Adam.Chapter XXV.—From Saul to the Captivity.Chapter XXVI.—Contrast Between Hebrew and Greek Writings.Chapter XXVII.—Roman Chronology to the Death of M. Aurelius.Chapter XXVIII.—Leading Chronological Epochs.Chapter XXIX.—Antiquity of Christianity.Chapter XXX.—Why the Greeks Did Not Mention Our Histories.