The one surviving speech of the emperor Constantine himself, addressed to the church: on God and creation, the folly of the pagan philosophers and poets, the prophecies of Christ, and the fate of the persecuting emperors. In modern English from the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers translation (1890), checked against it chapter by chapter.
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1The Feast of Easter, and the Word Betrayed2A Plea for Patience and Correction3One God, the Father of the Word4The Error of Idol Worship5Christ the Maker of All Things6Against Fate and Chance7What Lies Beyond Our Understanding8Plenty for Need, Little for Pleasure9The Philosophers, and the Teaching of Plato10The Poets and Their Fables11The Coming of the Lord in the Flesh12Those Who Refuse to Know, and the Honor of the Martyrs13Why Created Things Differ14The Created and the Uncreated15The Savior’s Teaching and Miracles16Foretold by the Prophets17Moses, Daniel, and the Three Young Men18The Sibyl’s Acrostic19Cicero and Virgil20Virgil’s Eclogue Explained21Not Spoken of a Mere Man22Piety, the Source of My Victories23The Christian Way of Life24Decius, Valerian and Aurelian25The Fate of Diocletian26Success Comes from God