Apology before the Judge

Apologia Luciani

The creed ascribed to Lucian is in Athanasius, On the Councils 23, already on this site.

1Lucian, on trial, defends the Christian faith in one God revealed through Christ, appeals to the witnesses of Christ's death and resurrection, and challenges his judges to believe.

About this work

Author: Lucian of Antioch
Attribution: disputed · The speech occurs only in Rufinus's Latin addition to Eusebius, Church History (Rufinus, Eccl. hist. 9.6); Eusebius's Greek says only that Lucian spoke. Whether Rufinus had a source or composed it is disputed.
Standing: Honoured by the Catholic and Orthodox traditions. Honoured as a saint or in a church calendar by: Catholic, Orthodox.
Date: ca. 312 (reported by Rufinus ca. 400) (disputed) · The date of the speech is that of Lucian's trial; the Latin text is Rufinus's, from about 400.
Written at: Nicomedia, Bithynia (approximate)
Language: Latin
Genre: apology
Reference system: single speech, one section
SBL abbreviation: Apol.Not yet checked
Clavis: CPL number not yet checked
Text from: Eusebius Werke, vol. 2.2: Die Kirchengeschichte, ed. E. Schwartz and Th. Mommsen, GCS 9.2 (Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1908), pp. 813-815 (Rufinus's Latin version) (Printed edition in the public domain; archive.org OCR of a public-domain scan)