{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/002/0020078.htm","path":"chr/ecf/002/0020078.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/002/0020078.htm","text":"These things, O Greeks, I Tatian, a disciple of the barbarian philosophy, 516 have composed for you. I was born in the land of the Assyrians, having been first instructed in your doctrines, p. 82 and afterwards in those which I now undertake to proclaim. Henceforward, knowing who God is and what is His work, I present myself to you prepared for an examination 517 concerning my doctrines, while I adhere immoveably to that mode of life which is according to God. 518\n[Comp. cap. xxix. p. 77, supra.]\n82:517\n[Compare the boastful Rousseau: \u201cQue la trompette du jugement sonne quand elle voudra, je viendrai ce livra a la main, me presenter devant le souverain Juge.\u201d Confessions, livre i. p. 2.]\n82:518\n[\u201cAdhere immoveably.\u201d Alas! \u201clet him that thinketh he standeth\u201d, etc. But I cannot part with Tatian nor think of Tertullian without recalling David\u2019s threnode: \u201cThere the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away \u2026 . I am distressed for thee, my brother: \u2026 very pleasant hast thou been unto me \u2026 How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!\u201d Our own sad times have taught us similar lamentations for some who seemed for a time to be \u201cburning and shining lights.\u201d God be merciful to poor frail men.]","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol II: TATIAN: Chapter XLII. Concluding Statement as to the Author.","type":"page"}