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Chapter XXVIII.—Argument:  Nor is It Only Hatred that They Arouse Against the Christians, But They Charge Against Them Horrid Crimes, Which Up to This Time Have Been Proved by Nobody.  This is the Work of Demons.  For by Them a False Report is Both Set on Foot and Propagated.  The Christians are Falsely Accused of Sacrilege, of Incest, of Adultery, of Parricide; And, Moreover, It is Certain and True that the Very Same Crimes, or Crimes Like to or Greater Than These, are in Fact Committed by the Gentiles Themselves.

Ante-Nicene Fathers — American Roberts / Donaldson / Coxe edition, Volume IV · The Octavius of Minucius Felix — unspecified — eng