Chapter XIV.—Justin prays that this
appeal be published.
And we therefore pray you to publish this little book,
appending what you think right, that our opinions may be known to others,
and that these persons may have a fair chance of being freed from
erroneous notions and ignorance of good, who by their own fault are
become subject to punishment; that so these things may be published to
men, because it is in the nature of man to know good and evil; and by
their condemning us, whom they do not understand, for actions which they
say are wicked, and by delighting in the gods who did such things, and
even now require similar actions from men, and by inflicting on us death
or bonds or some other such punishment, as if we were guilty of these
things, they condemn themselves, so that there is no need of other
judges.
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