Aristides was a Christian apologist living in Athens. His Apology seems to have been written around 125 A.D. and presented to Emperor Hadrian after a Christian persecution occasioned by Hadrian's initiation into the Eleusinian Mysteries. Jerome considered him to be an "eloquent philosopher." Aristides considers Jesus to be the son of the one God Almighty.

The son of God was pleased to come upon the earth, they received him with wanton violence and betrayed him into the hands of Pilate the Roman governor; and paying no respect to his good deeds and the countless miracles he wrought among them, they demanded a sentence of death by the cross. And they perished by their own transgression; for to this day they worship the one God Almighty, but not according to knowledge. For they deny that Christ is the son of God, and they are much like to the heathen, even although they may seem to make some approach to the truth from which they have removed themselves. So much for the Jews. (Apology, 14).

Now the Christians trace their origin from the Lord Jesus Christ. And He is acknowledged by the Holy Spirit to be the son of the Most High God, who came down from heaven for the salvation of men.(Apology 15).

For they know God, the Creator and Fashioner of all things through the only-begotten son and the Holy Spirit, and beside Him they worship no other God. (Apology 15).