One of the Earliest, Most Eloquent Defenses of the Christian Faith
A Beautiful, Stirring and Articulate Defense of Christians, and their Relationship to the World Robert M. Grant describes the epistle of Mathetes to Diognetus (The Anchor Bible Dictionary, v. 2, p. 201): A late 2d century apology addressed to a certain Diognetus who is otherwise unknown. Diognetus was a tutor of the emperor Marcus Aurelius,…