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• The Apocriticus of Macarius Magnes (Greek portions omitted), by Macarius Magnes, ed. by T. W. Crafer (HTML at tertullian.org)
• The Apology (from an 1851 edition), by Tertullian, trans. by Temple Chevallier (HTML at tertullian.org)
• The Apology (from an 1889 reprint of a 1709 translation), by Tertullian, trans. by William Reeve (HTML at tertullian.org)
• The Apology, by Tertullian, trans. by Sydney Thelwall (HTML with commentary at CCEL)
• The Apology of Tertullian for the Christians (London and Oxford: Parker and Co., 1890), by Tertullian, trans. by T. Herbert Bindley (HTML at tertullian.org)
• The Demonstration of the Apostolic Preaching, by Saint Irenaeus, trans. by J. Armitage Robinson (multiple formats at CCEL)
• The Newly Recovered Apology of Aristides: Its Doctrine and Ethics (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1891), by Helen B. Harris, contrib. by active 2nd century Aristides and J. Rendel Harris (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Seven Books of Arnobius Against the Heathen, by Arnobius of Sicca, trans. by Hamilton Bryce and Hugh Campbell (HTML at CCEL)
• To Scapula, by Tertullian, trans. by Sydney Thelwall (HTML with commentary at CCEL)
• Orthodoxy and Heresy in Earliest Christianity, by Walter Bauer, ed. by Robert A. Kraft and Gerhard Krodel (HTML at jewishchristianlit.com)
• Select Treatises of S. Athanasius, Archbishop of Alexandria, in Controversy With the Arians (Oxford: James Parker and Co., 1877), by Saint Athanasius, ed. by John Henry Newman (HTML at newmanreader.org)
• Select Treatises of S. Athanasius, in Controversy With the Arians (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1903), by Saint Athanasius, ed. by John Henry Newman
  • Volume I: HTML at newmanreader.org
  • Volume II: HTML at newmanreader.org
• Testimonies (The University press, 1916), by J. Rendel Harris and Vacher Burch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Theodoreti Graecarum affectionum curatio (In aedibus B.G. Teubneri, 1904), by Bishop of Cyrrhus Theodoret and Johann Raeder (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The evidences of Christianity. (Gould and Lincoln, 1854), by William Jay Bolton (page images at HathiTrust)
• St. Irenaeus; the demonstration of the apostolic preaching (Macmillan, 1920), by Saint Irenaeus and J. Armitage Robinson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Apologies of Justin Martyr (The University press, 1911), by Justin Martyr and A. W. F. Blunt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The apologetic of the New Testament (Williams & Norgate;, 1907), by Ernest Findlay Scott (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Christian apologetics of the second century in their relation to modern thought (Society for promoting Christian knowledge ;, 1921), by Philip Carrington (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Embassy for the Christians. (Newman Press, 1956), by Athenagoras of Athens (page images at HathiTrust)
• The apologies of Justin Martyr. To which is appended The epistle to Diognetus. (Harper & brothers, 1877), by Justin Martyr and Basil L. Gildersleeve (page images at HathiTrust)
• Q. Septimi Florentis Tertvlliani Apologeticvs : the text of Oehler (University Press, 1917), by Tertullian, Alexander Souter, John E. B. Mayor, and Franz Oehler (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sancti Aureli Augustini Retractationum libri duo. (Vindobonae : F. Tempsky, 1902., 1902), by Saint Augustine of Hippo and Pius Knöll (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Noragoyn aghberkʻ Eznkay Koghpatsʻwoy Ěnddēm aghandotsʻ matenin (Mkhitʻarean Tparan, 1919), by Grigoris Galēmkʻearean (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Martyrs and apologists (New York : Scribner, 1871., 1871), by Edmond de Pressensé and Annie Harwood Holmden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Irenaeus of Lugdunum : a study of his teaching (University Press, 1914), by F. R. Montgomery Hitchcock (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• L'intolérance religieuse et la politique. (E. Flammarion, 1911), by Auguste Bouché-Leclercq (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sainte Irénée (IIe siècle) (V. Lecoffre, 1904), by Albert Dufourcq (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• De Theodoreti graecarum affectionum curatione (Gad, 1900), by Johann Raeder (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tertullian als Apologet. (Aschendorff, 1927), by Joseph Lortz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Leontius Von Byzanz; ein Polemiker aus dem. zeitalter Justinians. (Andreas Göbel's Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1894), by Wilhelm Rügamer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Corpvs apologetarvm christianorvm saecvli secvndi (prostat in libraria H.Dvfft, 1851), by J. C. Th. Otto, Prudent Moran, Claudius Apollinaris, Saint Melito, Miltiades, 2d cent Aristo Pellaeus, Marcianus Aristides, Quadratus, Hermias, Saint Theophilus, 2nd cent Athenagoras, ca. 120-173 Tatian, and Justin Martyr (page images at HathiTrust)
• Minucius Felix und Seneca (Beck, 1904), by Franz Xaver Burger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Epistola ad Diognetum, Iustini philosophi et martyris nomen prae se ferens. Textum recensuit (T.O. Weigel, 1852), by J. C. Th. Otto, Diognetus, and Justin Martyr (page images at HathiTrust)
• S. Justini, philosophi et martyris, Apologia prima (Macmillan, Barclay, & Macmillan, 1845), by Justin Martyr and William Trollope (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les apologistes chrétiens au IIe siècle : Saint Justin : cours d'éloquence sacrée fait à la Sorbonne pendant l'année 1858-1859 (Bray, 1860), by Charles Freppel (page images at HathiTrust)
• The defenders of the faith ; or, the Christian apologists of the second and third centuries (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge ;, 1879), by F. Watson and Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain). Tract Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Theodoreti Episkopou Kyrou Ellēnikōn pathēmatōn therapeutikē] = Thoedoreti episcopi cyrensis græcarum affectionum curatio (e typographeo academico, 1839), by Bishop of Cyrrhus Theodoret and Thomas Gaisford (page images at HathiTrust)
• The apologeticks of the learned Athenian philosopher Athenagoras: I. For the Christian religion. II. For the truth of the resurrection ... (James, 1714), by 2nd cent Athenagoras and David Humphreys (page images at HathiTrust)
• The literature of the second century : short studies in Christian evidences (J. Pott, 1891), by Frederick R. Wynne, Samuel Hemphill, and J. H. Bernard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les apologistes chrétiens au deuxième siècle : cours d'éloquence sacrée fait à la Sorbonne pendant l'année 1859-1860 (Retaux-Bray, 1887), by Charles Freppel (page images at HathiTrust)
• The defenders of the faith, or, The Christian apologists of the second and third centuries (London : Society for promoting Christian knowledge ; New York : E. & J.B. Young & Co., 1893., 1893), by F. Watson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sanctii Aurelii Augustini ... libri XXII. De civitate dei : castigati et illustrati opera manachorum parisiensium sancti mauri. (ex typographia Josephi Antonii Elia ..., 1748), by Saint Augustine and Giuseppe Bianchini (page images at HathiTrust)
• The apologies of Justin Martyr, Tertullian, and Minutius Felix. : In defence of the Christian religion, with the Commonitory of Vincentius Lirinensis ... (Printed by T.W. and T.S. for J. Churchill ..., 1716), by William Reeves, Saint Vincent of Lérins, Marcus Minucius Felix, Tertullian, and Justin Martyr (page images at HathiTrust)
• Apologetic and practical treatises (Parker, 1842), by Tertullian and C. Dodgson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les apologistes grecs du IIe siècle de notre ère. (Hachette, 1912), by Aimé Puech (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Theophili episcopi Antiochensis Libri tres ad Autolycum (Parker, 1852), by Saint Theophilus and William Gilson Humphry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Octavius cum integris omnium notis ac commentariis (Ex Officinâ Hackiana, 1672), by Marcus Minucius Felix, Jacques Oisel, Johannes van Meurs, and Julius Firmicus Maternus (page images at HathiTrust)
• M. Minucii Felicis Octavius : cum integris Woweri, Elmenhorstii, Heraldi et Rigaltii notis aliorumque hinc inde collectis (C. Boutestein :, 1709), by Marcus Minucius Felix, Julius Firmicus Maternus, Bp. of Carthage Cyprianus, and Jacobus Gronovius (page images at HathiTrust)
• Theophili, episcopi Antiocheni, Libri III, Ad Avtolycvm graece : ad fidem codocis ms. Bodleiani ex parte regii Parisiens (Apud Theod. Christoph. Felginer, 1724), by Saint Theophilus and Johann Christian Wolf (page images at HathiTrust)
• De errore profanarum religionum : ad constantium et Constantem Augustos liber (C.A. Reitzel, 1826), by Julius Firmicus Maternus and Friedrich Münter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Testimonies (University Press, 1916), by J. Rendel Harris and Vacher Burch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Opera. (prostat apud Frider. Mauke, 1842), by Justin Martyr and Johann Karl Theodor von Otto (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tertullian (Walter Smith (Late Mozley), 1884), by Tertullian (page images at HathiTrust)
• Octavius. (B.Liebisch, 1913), by Marcus Minucius Felix and Alfred Schoene (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Meditaciones, soliloquios, y manual del glorioso doctor de la iglesia, San Agustin ; traduzidas de latin en lengua castellana por Pedro de Ribadeneyra (por Luis Sãchez, 1597), by Saint Augustine and Pedro de Ribadeneyra (page images at HathiTrust)
• Coleccion de los apologistas antiguos de la religion christiana : San Justino, Taciano de Siria, Atenagoras, Teofilo de Antioquia, Tertuliano, Minucio Felix y Origenes, traducidos ó analizados (Impr. Real, 1792), by Manuel Ximeno y Urieta and abate de Gourey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Frühchristliche apologeten und märtyrerakten, aus dem griechischen und lateinischen übersetzt ... (J. Kösel, 1913), by Julius Firmicus Maternus, Marcus Minucius Felix, of Alexandria Hermeias, Saint Theophilus, Athenagoras of Athens, approximately 120-173 Tatian, Justin Martyr, active 2nd century Aristides, and Gerhard Rauschen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The works now extant of S. Justin the Martyr (J. H. Parker ;, 1861), by Justin Martyr (page images at HathiTrust)
• Apology of Tertullian. (J. Deighton, 1850), by Tertullian and Henry Annesley Woodham (page images at HathiTrust)
• The martyrs and apologists (Hodder and Stoughton, 1871), by Edmond de Pressensé (page images at HathiTrust)
• Untersuchungen über die edessenische Chronik : mit dem syrischen Text und einer Übersetzung (J.C. Hinrichs, 1892), by Ludwig Hallier, Richard Raabe, and active 2nd century Aristides (page images at HathiTrust)
• The writings of Justin Martyr and Athenagoras (T. & T. Clark, 1867), by Justin Martyr and Athenagoras of Athens (page images at HathiTrust)
• Opera quae feruntur omnia. (prostat in libraria Hermanni Dufft, 1876), by Justin Martyr and Johann Karl Theodore Otto (page images at HathiTrust)
• Select treatises of St. Athanasius in controversy with the Arians (Longmans, Green, and co., 1895), by Saint Athanasius and John Henry Newman (page images at HathiTrust)
• M. Minucii Felicis Octavius (in aedibus B.G. Teubneri, 1912), by Marcus Minucius Felix and Jean Pierre Waltzing (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The first apology of Justin Martyr, addressed to the emperor Antoninus Pius : prefaced by some account of the writings and opinions of Justin Martyr (Griffith, Farran, Okeden & Welsh, 1890), by Justin Martyr and John Kaye (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Those two excellent monuments of ancient learning and piety, Minucius Felix's octavius, and Tertullian's apology for the primitive christians, render'd into English. (White Hart :, 1708), by Marcus Minucius Felix (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tatianou Pros Hellēnas. Hermiou Diasyrmos tōn hexō philosophōn (E Theatro Sheldoniano ;, 1700), by approximately 120-173 Tatian, Hermias, William Worth, Louis Dufour de Longuerue, Raphael Seiler, and Denis-Nicolas Le Nourry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Anthropologie Tatians und der übrigen griechischen Apologeten des 2. Jahrunderts : mit einleitender Gottes- und Schöpfungslehre (Westfälische Vereinsdruckerei, 1906), by Joseph Feuerstein (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The city of God. : Translated by Marcus Dods. (T. & T. Clark, 1871), by Saint Augustine and Marcus Dods (page images at HathiTrust)
• De miraculis gentilium ... (Typis J. Welperi, 1683), by Johannes Güntzer and Balthasar Bebel (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Apostolic fathers and the apologists of the second century. (D. Appleton and Company, 1884), by George Anson Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Apostolic fathers, and the apologists of the second century. (D. Appleton and company, 1879), by George Anson Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
• De civitate Dei libri XXII (Johnson Reprint Corp., 1962), by Saint Augustine and Emanuel Hoffmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Pour l'étude de Tertullien; introduction à l'Apologétique. (Impr. H. Vaillant-Carmanne, 1921), by Jean Pierre Waltzing (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Apology of Aristides on behalf of the Christians : from a Syriac ms. preserved on Mount Sinai (University Press, 1891), by Marcianus Aristides, J. Armitage Robinson, and J. Rendel Harris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das Uebel in der Welt nach der Lehre des Arnobius : ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der patristischen Philosophie (A. Kämpfe, 1896), by Ernst Franz Schulze (page images at HathiTrust)
• S. Aurelii Augustini Hipponensis episcopi De civitate Dei libri XXII. (Sumptibus E. Bredtii, 1877), by Saint Augustine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ivstini philosophi et martyris opera qvae fevntvr omnia. (prostat in libraria Hermanni Dvfft, 1876), by Justin Martyr and Johann Karl Theodor von Otto (page images at HathiTrust)
• La ciudad de Dios : obra escrita por el padre de la iglesia (Librería de Perlado Páez, 1913), by Saint Augustine and José Cayetano Díaz de Beyral (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Evangelica praeparatio (Typographeo Academico ;, 1903), by of Caesarea Bishop of Caesarea Eusebius and Edwin Hamilton Gifford (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Adversus nationes libri VII (apvd C. Geroldi filivm, 1875), by Arnobius of Sicca and August Reifferscheid (page images at HathiTrust)
• Irrisio gentilium philosophorum. Apologetarum Quadrati, Aristidis, Aristonis, Miltiadis, Melitonis, Apollinaris reliquiae. (In Libraria Maukii, 1872), by Hermias, Prudent Maran, Johann Karl Theodor von Otto, Marcianus Aristides, Saint Melito, active 2d century Militiades, active 2d century Aristo Pellaeus, active 2nd century Aristides, and Claudius Apollinaris (page images at HathiTrust)
• M. Minucii Felicis Octavius. (in aedibus B. G. Teubneri, 1903), by Marcus Minucius Felix and Hermann Boenig (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Der Apologet Aristides : der Text seiner uns erhaltenen Schriften nebst einleitenden Untersuchungen über dieselben (A. Deichert'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung Nachf. (Georg Böhme), 1894), by active 2nd century Aristides, of Athens Aristides, and Reinhold Seeberg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Apologieen Justins des Märtyrers (Mohr, 1891), by Justin Martyr and Gustav Krüger (page images at HathiTrust)
• The literature of the second century : short studies in Christian evidences (Hodder and Stoughton, 1891), by Frederick R. Wynne, Samuel Hemphill, J. H. Bernard, and Butler & Tanner Ltd (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das Uebel in der Welt nach der Lehre des Arnobius ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der patristischen Philosophie (A. Kampfe, 1896), by Ernst Franz Schulze (page images at HathiTrust)
• De Aristidis philosophi Atheniensis sermonibus duobus apologeticis (Marzbach'sche Buchdr., 1881), by Ludwig Rummler (page images at HathiTrust)
• The first Latin apologist for Christianity (Columbia University Libraries, 1800), by Talbot W. Chambers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rechtfertigung des Christentums (Apologie I und II) (J. H. Ed. Heitz, 1894), by Justin Martyr and Heinrich Veil (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Schriftbeweis für die Kirche aus den Heiden als das wahre Israel bis auf Hippolyt. (A. Deichert, 1908), by G. Nathanael Bonwetsch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Corpus apologetarum christianorum saeculi secundi (Prostat apud Frider. Mauke, 1847), by J. C. Th. Otto, philosopher Hermias, Saint Theophilus, Athenagoras of Athens, approximately 120-173 Tatian, and Justin Martyr (page images at HathiTrust)
• S. Ephraim's prose refutations of Mani, Marcion, and Bardaisan (Gregg International Publishers, 1969), by Saint Ephraem Syrus, F. Crawford Burkitt, A. A. Bevan, and C. W. Mitchell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Corpus apologetarum christianorum saeculi secundi (Prostat in Libraria Hermanni Dufft, 1876), by J. C. Th. Otto and Justin Martyr (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Adversus nationes, libri VII (C. Gerold, 1968), by Arnobius of Sicca and August Reifferscheid (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Q.S.F. Tertulliani Liber Apologeticus : The Apology of Tertullian (University Press, 1843), by Tertullian and Henry Annesley Woodham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Octavus (Johnson Reprint, 1968), by Marcus Minucius Felix, Karl Halm, and Julius Firmicus Maternus (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Apostolic fathers, and the apologists of the second century. (D. Appleton and company, 1879), by George Anson Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The defenders of the faith (Pott, Young & co.,>$c[1879], 1899), by F. Watson and Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain). Tract Committee (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Libellus Pro christianis: oratio De resurrectione cadauerum (J. C. Hinrichs, 1891), by Athenagoras of Athens and Eduard Schwartz (page images at HathiTrust)
• The first Latin apologist for Christianity ([n.p., 1800), by Talbot W. Chambers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Origenis Contra Celsum libri viii. : Et Gregorii Neocaesar. Thaumaturgi Panegyricus in Origenem (D. Franck, 1605), by Origen, Sigmund Gelen, David Hoeschel, and Thaumaturgus Gregory (page images at HathiTrust)
• Disputationum aduersus gentes libri septem (Ex typographia Dominici Basae, 1583), by Arnobius of Sicca, Francesco Zanetti, Domenico Basa, Fulvio Orsini, and Marcus Minucius Felix (page images at HathiTrust)
• Defendes of the faith (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge ;, in the 1900s), by F. Watson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tertullien et Saint Augustin œuvres choisies : avec la traduction en franc̜ais (Firmin Didot Fréres, 1858), by Tertullian, D. Nisard, and Saint Augustine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Apologetischen Grundgedanken in der Literatur der ersten drei Jahrhunderte (druck von F.X. Bucher, 1890), by Joseph Zahn (page images at HathiTrust)
• St. Irenæus, The demonstration of the apostolic preaching (Society for promoting Christian knowledge;, 1920), by Saint Irenaeus and J. Armitage Robinson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• On the apostolical preaching and vindication of the gospel to the Jews, Samaritans, and devout Gentiles : as exhibited in the Acts of the Apostles, the Epistles of St. Peter, and the Epistle to the Hebrews (Cambridge : printed by J. Smith, for C. & J. Rivington, London, 1823., 1823), by James Clarke Franks (page images at HathiTrust)
• The apologies of Justin Martyr, Tertullian, and Minutius Felix, in defence of the Christian religion : with the Commonitory of Vincentius Lirinensis, concerning the primitive rule of faith, translated from their originals, with notes, for the advantage chiefly of English readers, and a preliminary discourse upon each author ; Together with a prefatory dissertation about the right use of the Fathers (London : Printed by W.B. for A. and J. Churchill, 1709., 1709), by William Reeves, Saint Vincent of Lérins, Marcus Minucius Felix, Tertullian, and Justin Martyr (page images at HathiTrust)
• The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2), by Origen, trans. by W. H. Cairns and Frederick Crombie (Gutenberg ebook)
• The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2), by Origen, trans. by Frederick Crombie, contrib. by Sextus Julius Africanus (Gutenberg ebook)
• Contra Celsum. English (London : Printed by B. Mills and sold by J. Robinson ..., [1660?]), by Origen and James Bellamy (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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