On the Christian Religion

and his successors, and in a long order right up to the times of the Emperor Julian, defended Christ amid swords and fire with holiness, voice, letters, and daily labor, peril, and death, the work would require me to compose a volume by no means short; not to mention the thousands upon thousands of orators and philosophers who, among the Greeks, barbarians, and Latins after Julian, consumed their whole lives most holily in the Christian work.