Pius.[C] The rescript declares that the Christians--for they are meant,
though the name Christians does not occur in the rescript--were not to
be disturbed unless they were attempting something against the Roman
rule; and no man was to be punished simply for being a Christian. But
this rescript is spurious. Any man moderately acquainted with Roman
history will see by the style and tenor that it is a clumsy forgery.

[A] We have the evidence of Justinus (ad Diognetum, c. 5) to
this effect: "The Christians are attacked by the Jews as if
they were men of a different race, and are persecuted by the
Greeks; and those who hate them cannot give the reason of their
enmity."

[B] And in Eusebius (E.H. iv. 8, 9). Orosius (vii. 13) says
that Hadrian sent this rescript to Minucius Fundanus, proconsul
of Asia after being instructed in books written on the
Christian religion by Quadratus, a disciple of the Apostles,
and Aristides, an Athenian, an honest and wise man, and Serenus
Granius. In the Greek text of Hadrian's rescript there
is mentioned Serenius Granianus, the predecessor of Minucius
Fundanus in the government of _Asia_.

This rescript of Hadrian has clearly been added to the Apology
by some editor. The Apology ends with the words: [Greek: ho
philon tô Oeô, touto genesthô]

[C] Eusebius (E.H. iv. 12), after giving the beginning of
Justinus' first Apology, which contains the address to T.
Antoninus and his two adopted sons, adds: "The same emperor
being addressed by other brethren in Asia, honored the Commune