The apology of saint justin on behalf of the christians
To remain. it is therefore our task to provide to all the examination both of our life and of our teachings, so that on behalf of those who think to b
To do no wrong nor to hold these godless opinions, you do not examine the charges, but driven by irrational passion and the scourge of wicked demons,
Not as a christian but if anyone is found to be unconvicted, let him be acquitted as a christian who has done no wrong. for we will not ask you to pu
And to think or say that men are guardians of gods. but we have been taught that god has no need of material offerings from men, seeing that he himsel
For they do not try to escape notice when doing wrong because of the laws and punishments laid down by you, but knowing that it is possible to escape
Of all resources for health, of the qualities of kinds of things and changes of seasons, and of being again in incorruption through faith in him, send
To enter into the kingdom of heaven, than with two to be sent into the eternal fire. and: he who marries a woman divorced from another man commits adu
And evil. do not be anxious about what you shall eat or what you shall wear. are you not more valuable than the birds and the beasts? and god feeds th
He who does the will of my father who is in heaven. for whoever hears me and does what i say, hears the one who sent me. and many will say to me: lord
And the men who are seized by the souls of the dead and are thrown about, whom all call possessed by demons and mad, and the oracles spoken of among y
And sibyl and hystaspes said that there would be a destruction of corruptible things by fire. and the so-called stoic philosophers dogmatically assert
To have come to ganymede and the many women with whom he committed adultery, and to have accepted his children for doing the same things. but, as we s
And rivers and mice and cats and crocodiles and most of the irrational animals, and not the same ones being honored by all, but different ones in diff
Saying. and a certain marcion of pontus, who is even now still teaching those who are persuaded by him to believe in some other god greater than the c
Christ foretold. for indeed, god's persistence in not yet doing this has been for the sake of the human race for he foreknows some who are going to b
Sent to herod, who was then ruling the jews, asking that the books of the prophecies be sent to him. and king herod sent them, written in their aforem
His manifestation occurred, and you ruled the jews and took possession of all their land. and he shall be the expectation of the nations was an indi
Was prophesied through isaiah, listen. and it was spoken thus: behold, the virgin shall be with child and shall bring forth a son, and they will speak
Of the registrations made under cyrenius, your first procurator in judaea. and how christ after his birth was to be concealed from other men until he
A being, but introducing the persons who are speaking. not understanding this, the jews who have the books of the prophets did not recognize christ ev
I arose, because the lord helped me. and again when he says: they spoke with their lips, they shook their head, saying: let him deliver himself. that
In addition to these things, we have also considered it well and fitting to recall other words prophesied through this same david, from which you can
To him with trembling. lay hold of instruction, lest at any time the lord be angry, and you perish from the righteous way, when his wrath is kindled q
The human race has the power to choose what is good, it is not responsible for what is done in any way. but that by free choice it both does right and
So that even plato, when he said, 'the fault is of the one who chooses god is blameless,' said this, having taken it from moses the prophet for mose
Jerusalem a prediction of the mighty word, which his apostles, going forth from jerusalem, preached everywhere, and, although death has been decreed a
You bore these things and were silent and humbled us exceedingly. and that jerusalem was made desolate, as it was foretold would happen, you are persu
They gave, being filled with joy and faith, they renounced the idols and dedicated themselves to the unbegotten god through christ. and that it was fo
Having been given to them to study also the prophecies, in which all these things were foretold as going to happen, having taught them, and when they
He will clothe the worthy with incorruption, but the unjust he will send into the eternal fire with the evil demons in eternal sensation. and that the
The jewish and samaritan tribe are called israel and the house of jacob. and as it was prophesied that those from the nations who believe would be mor
Accurately, but how, being deceived, they have imitated the things concerning our christ, we shall make clear. moses, then, the prophet, as we have sa
The human form differs from that of the other irrational animals in nothing else than in its being erect and having the hands extended, and in its bea
And of nothing else new, but of the same things being in this administration of which if even a year's satiety should seize those who have partaken,
And what is physically described in plato's timaeus concerning the son of god, when he says, he placed him crosswise in the universe, he similarly s
Then they are led by us to where there is water, and are born again in the manner of rebirth by which we ourselves were also born again for in the na
And the demons, having learned from the things that happened to moses, the aforementioned prophet, that those who worship are commanded the same thing
He endured to suffer all that the demons worked against him, to be treated so by the foolish jews. who, although it was plainly spoken in the writings
Not from intercourse, but, since they knew that god, having conceived it, made the world by the word, they said that athena was the first thought whi
Which the wicked demons have imitated and delivered to be performed in the mysteries of mithras for that bread and a cup of water are set forth in th
Of caesar adrian, your father, having the right to demand of you as we thought fit to command that the judgments be made, not so much from the fact th
his manifestation occurred, and you ruled the Jews and took possession of all their land. And "He shall be the expectation of the nations" was an indication that from all the nations they will expect him to come again, which you can see with your own eyes and be convinced of by the deed. For from all races of men they expect the one who was crucified in Judaea, after whom the land of the Jews was immediately handed over to you, captured by the spear. And "Binding his foal to the vine, and washing his robe in the blood of the grape," was a symbol showing the things that would happen to Christ and the things that would be done by him. For a certain foal of an ass was standing in an entrance to a village, tied to a vine, which he then commanded his disciples to bring to him, and when it was brought, mounting it he sat and entered into Jerusalem, where the greatest temple of the Jews was, which was later destroyed by you; and after these things he was crucified, so that the remainder of the prophecy might be fulfilled. For "Washing his robe in the blood of the grape" was a proclamation beforehand of the passion which he was to suffer, cleansing through blood those who believe in him. For the robe which is called so by the divine Spirit through the prophet are the men who believe in him, in whom dwells the seed from God, the Word. And the expression "Blood of the grape" signified that the one who was to appear would indeed have blood, but not from human seed, but from divine power. And the first power after the Father of all and Lord God is the Son, the Word. In what way he, having been made flesh, became man, we shall explain in what follows. For just as the blood of the vine was not made by man but by God, so also was it declared that his blood would not be from human seed but from the power of God, as we have said before. And Isaiah, another prophet, prophesying the same things in other words, said thus: A star shall rise from Jacob, and a flower shall come up from the root of Jesse; and in his arm shall the nations hope. And a shining star has risen, and a flower has come up from the root of Jesse, this is the Christ. For through a virgin of the seed of Jacob, who was the father of Judah, who has been shown to be the father of the Jews, he was begotten by the power of God. And Jesse was his forefather according to the oracle, and he was a descendant of Jacob and of Judah by succession of race. And again, in these very words, that through a virgin he would be bor
γενομένην αὐτοῦ φανέρωσιν καὶ Ἰουδαίων ἐβασιλεύσατε καὶ τῆς ἐκείνων πάσης γῆς ἐκρατήσατε. τὸ δὲ Aὐτὸς ἔσται προσ δοκία ἐθνῶν
μηνυτικὸν ἦν ὅτι ἐκ πάντων τῶν ἐθνῶν προσδοκήσουσιν αὐτὸν πάλιν παραγενησόμενον, ὅπερ ὄψει ὑμῖν πάρεστιν ἰδεῖν καὶ ἔργῳ πεισθῆναι·
ἐκ πάντων γὰρ γενῶν ἀν θρώπων προσδοκῶσι τὸν ἐν Ἰουδαίᾳ σταυρωθέντα, μεθ' ὃν εὐθὺς δοριάλωτος ὑμῖν ἡ γῆ Ἰουδαίων παρεδόθη.
τὸ δὲ ∆εσμεύων πρὸς ἄμπελον τὸν πῶλον αὐτοῦ καὶ πλύνων τὴν στολὴν αὐτοῦ ἐν αἵματι σταφυλῆς σύμβολον δηλωτικὸν ἦν τῶν γενησομένων
τῷ Χριστῷ καὶ τῶν ὑπ' αὐτοῦ πραχθησομένων. πῶλος γάρ τις ὄνου εἱστήκει ἔν τινι εἰσόδῳ κώμης πρὸς ἄμ πελον δεδεμένος, ὃν ἐκέλευσεν
ἀγαγεῖν αὐτῷ τότε τοὺς γνωρί μους αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἀχθέντος ἐπιβὰς ἐκάθισε καὶ εἰσελήλυθεν εἰς τὰ Ἰεροσόλυμα, ἔνθα τὸ μέγιστον ἱερὸν
ἦν Ἰουδαίων, ὃ ὑφ' ὑμῶν ὕστερον κατεστράφη· καὶ μετὰ ταῦτα ἐσταυρώθη, ὅπως τὸ λεῖπον τῆς προφητείας συντελεσθῇ. τὸ γὰρ Πλύνων
τὴν στολὴν αὐτοῦ ἐν αἵματι σταφυλῆς προαγγελτικὸν ἦν τοῦ πάθους οὗ πάσχειν ἔμελλε, δι' αἵματος καθαίρων τοὺς πιστεύοντας αὐτῷ.
ἡ γὰρ κεκλημένη ὑπὸ τοῦ θείου πνεύματος διὰ τοῦ προφήτου στολὴ οἱ πιστεύοντες αὐτῷ εἰσιν ἄνθρωποι, ἐν οἷς οἰκεῖ τὸ παρὰ τοῦ
θεοῦ σπέρμα, ὁ λόγος. τὸ δὲ εἰρημένον Aἷμα τῆς σταφυλῆς σημαντικὸν τοῦ ἔχειν μὲν αἷμα τὸν φανη σόμενον, ἀλλ' οὐκ ἐξ ἀνθρωπείου
σπέρματος ἀλλ' ἐκ θείας δυ νάμεως. ἡ δὲ πρώτη δύναμις μετὰ τὸν πατέρα πάντων καὶ δεσπότην θεὸν καὶ υἱὸς ὁ λόγος ἐστίν· ὃς
τίνα τρόπον σαρκοποιηθεὶς ἄνθρωπος γέγονεν, ἐν τοῖς ἑξῆς ἐροῦμεν. ὃν τρόπον γὰρ τὸ τῆς ἀμπέλου αἷμα οὐκ ἄνθρωπος πεποίηκεν
ἀλλ' ὁ θεός, οὕτως καὶ τοῦτο ἐμηνύετο οὐκ ἐξ ἀνθρωπείου σπέρματος γενήσεσθαι τὸ αἷμα ἀλλ' ἐκ δυνάμεως θεοῦ, ὡς προέ φημεν.
καὶ Ἠσαίας δέ, ἄλλος προφήτης, τὰ αὐτὰ δι' ἄλλων ·ήσεων προφητεύων οὕτως εἶπεν· Ἀνατελεῖ ἄστρον ἐξ Ἰακώβ, καὶ ἄνθος ἀναβήσεται
ἀπὸ τῆς ·ίζης Ἰεσσαί· καὶ ἐπὶ τὸν βρα χίονα αὐτοῦ ἔθνη ἐλπιοῦσιν. ἄστρον δὲ φωτεινὸν ἀνέτειλε, καὶ ἄνθος ἀνέβη ἀπὸ τῆς ·ίζης
Ἰεσσαί, οὗτος ὁ Χριστός. διὰ γὰρ παρθένου τῆς ἀπὸ τοῦ σπέρματος Ἰακώβ, τοῦ γενομένου πατρὸς Ἰούδα, τοῦ δεδηλωμένου Ἰουδαίων
πατρός, διὰ δυνάμεως θεοῦ ἀπεκυήθη· καὶ Ἰεσσαὶ προπάτωρ μὲν κατὰ τὸ λόγιον γεγέ νηται, τοῦ δὲ Ἰακὼβ καὶ τοῦ Ἰούδα κατὰ γένους
διαδοχὴν υἱὸς ὑπῆρχεν. Καὶ πάλιν ὡς αὐτολεξεὶ διὰ παρθένου μὲν τεχ
