The Church Fathers · c. 435–441
Against Julian
Contra Iulianum
Cyril of Alexandria · c. 376 – 444
What it is
A reply to the emperor Julian's Against the Galileans, written eighty years after the fact because the book was still circulating and still doing damage. Cyril quotes Julian at length, section by section, before answering.
Why it lasted
The reason Julian's attack survives at all — this catalogue holds it only because Cyril transcribed it to refute it. A refutation is the commonest way a condemned book reaches us, and this is the clearest case.
Scripture it works from
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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