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To Autolycus 2.15

Late second-century apology containing the earliest surviving use of the Greek word trias for God, his Word, and his Wisdom.

Citation

Theophilus of Antioch, To Autolycus 2.15, translated by Marcus Dods, Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 2.

Use

Used to show that the word for a divine triad was in Christian use by about AD 180, more than a century before Nicaea.