Other Writings of Justin Martyr

M. Dods, M.A.] ### Chapter I.—Justin justifies his departure from Greek customs. Do not suppose, ye Greeks, that my separation from your customs is unreasonable and unthinking; for I found in them nothing that is holy…

§1 — Other Writings of Justin (¶1)

For while Plato says that there are three first principles of all things, God, and matter, and form,—God, the maker of all; and matter, which is the subject of the first production of all that is produced, and affords…

§2 — Other Writings of Justin (¶2)

And he spoke thus:— 280 And again, in some other place he says:— And when he swears he says:— What does he mean by “I adjure thee by the Father’s voice, which first He uttered?” It is the Word of God which he here names…

§3 — Other Writings of Justin (¶3)

[1] For this, Socrates, he has elegantly expressed, that ‘whoever leads a life of holiness and justice, him sweet hope, the nurse of age, accompanies, cheering his heart, for she powerfully sways the changeful mind of…

§4 — Other Writings of Justin (¶4)

[1] Let not any one, therefore, of sound judgment prefer the elegant diction of these men to his own salvation, but let him, according to that old story, stop his ears with wax, and flee the sweet hurt which these…

§5 — Other Writings of Justin (¶5)

And our Lord Jesus Christ was born of a virgin, for no other reason than that He might destroy the begetting by lawless desire, and might show to the ruler [1] that the formation of man was possible to God without human…

§6 — Other Writings of Justin (¶6)

And Justin well said in his book against Marcion, that he would not have believed the Lord Himself, if He had announced any other God than the Fashioner and Maker [of the world], and our Nourisher.

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