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One of his works is addressed to Antoninus, who was called Pius, and his sons, and the Roman senate, in behalf of our doctrines, and another contains a second apology in behalf of our faith, which he made to the successor and namesake of the aforementioned emperor, Antoninus Verus, whose times we are now describing; 4.18.3 and another, To the Greeks, in which he discourses at length on most of the questions at issue between us and the Greek philosophers, and discusses the nature of demons. 4.18.4 But there is no need to quote from these now. And another of his writings has come down to us, also addressed To the Greeks, which he entitled a Refutation, and besides this another, On the Monarchy of God, which he establishes not only from our own Scriptures but also from the books of the Greeks. 4.18.5 Besides these, one entitled The Psalmist, and another, a scholastic work On the Soul, in which, after proposing various questions on the problem under discussion, he sets forth the opinions of the Greek philosophers, which he also promises to refute and to present his own opinion in another work. 4.18.6 He also composed a Dialogue against the Jews, which he held in the city of Ephesus with Trypho, the most distinguished of the Hebrews of that time; in this he shows how the divine grace urged him on to the doctrine of the faith, and what zeal he had previously displayed in philosophical studies, and what an earnest search he had made for the truth. 4.18.7 In the same work he records how the Jews had plotted against the teaching of Christ, addressing these very words to Trypho: 'For not only did you not repent of the evil things you did, but you then chose select men from Jerusalem and sent them out into all the earth, saying that a godless heresy of the Christians had appeared, and recounting those things which all who are ignorant of us say against us, so that you are the cause not only of injustice to yourselves, but also to all other men in general.' 4.18.8 He also writes that prophetic gifts shone forth in the church even down to his time, and he mentions the Apocalypse of John, saying clearly that it was by the apostle. And he mentions certain prophetic sayings, convicting Trypho that the Jews had indeed cut them out of the Scripture. Many other of his labors are also current among many brethren. 4.18.9 And the man’s words were thought worthy of such zeal even by the ancients, that Irenaeus quotes his sayings, for instance, in the fourth book Against Heresies, adding these very words: 'And Justin well says in his work Against Marcion that he would not have believed the Lord himself if he had announced another God besides the Creator.' And again in the fifth of the same work through these words: 'And Justin well said that before the advent of the Lord, Satan never dared to blaspheme God, since he did not yet know his condemnation.' 4.18.10 Let this be said necessarily as an encouragement to the studious to attend to his words with zeal. And such were the events concerning him. 4.19.1 And now in the eighth year of the aforementioned reign, Soter succeeded Anicetus, who had been bishop of the church of Rome for eleven years in all, but also of the see of Alexandria, when Celadion had presided for fourteen years, Agrippinus took over the succession, and in the church of Antioch Theophilus was known as the sixth from the apostles. Cornelius having been established there fourth after Hero, and after him Eros succeeding to the episcopate in the fifth degree. And at this time there flourished in the church Hegesippus, whom we know from what has gone before, and Dionysius, bishop of Corinth, and another, Pinytus, one of the bishops in Crete, and besides these, Philip and Apollinaris and Melito and Musanus and Modestus

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ὁ μέν τίς ἐστιν αὐτῷ λόγος πρὸς Ἀντωνῖνον τὸν Εὐσεβῆ προσαγορευθέντα καὶ τοὺς τούτου παῖδας τήν τε Ῥωμαίων σύγκλητον προσφωνητικὸς ὑπὲρ τῶν καθ' ἡμᾶς δογμάτων, ὁ δὲ δευτέραν περιέχων ὑπὲρ τῆς ἡμετέρας πίστεως ἀπολογίαν, ἣν πεποίηται πρὸς τὸν τοῦ δεδηλωμένου αὐτοκράτορος διάδοχόν τε καὶ ὁμώνυμον Ἀντωνῖνον Οὐῆρον, οὗ τὰ κατὰ τοὺς χρόνους ἐπὶ τοῦ παρόντος διέξι4.18.3 μεν· καὶ ἄλλος ὁ πρὸς Ἕλληνας, ἐν ᾧ μακρὸν περὶ πλείστων παρ' ἡμῖν τε καὶ τοῖς Ἑλλήνων φιλοσόφοις ζητουμένων κατατείνας λόγον, περὶ τῆς τῶν δαιμόνων διαλαμβάνει φύσεως· ἃ 4.18.4 οὐδὲν ἂν ἐπείγοι τὰ νῦν παρατίθεσθαι. καὶ αὖθις ἕτερον πρὸς Ἕλληνας εἰς ἡμᾶς ἐλήλυθεν αὐτοῦ σύγγραμμα, ὃ καὶ ἐπέγραψεν Ἔλεγχον, καὶ παρὰ τούτους ἄλλο περὶ θεοῦ μοναρχίας, ἣν οὐ μόνον ἐκ τῶν παρ' ἡμῖν γραφῶν, ἀλλὰ καὶ τῶν Ἑλληνικῶν 4.18.5 συνίστησιν βιβλίων· ἐπὶ τούτοις ἐπιγεγραμμένον Ψάλτης, καὶ ἄλλο σχολικὸν περὶ ψυχῆς, ἐν ᾧ διαφόρους πεύσεις προτείνας περὶ τοῦ κατὰ τὴν ὑπόθεσιν προβλήματος, τῶν παρ' Ἕλλησιν φιλοσόφων παρατίθεται τὰς δόξας, αἷς καὶ ἀντιλέξειν ὑπισχνεῖται τήν τε αὐτὸς αὐτοῦ δόξαν ἐν ἑτέρῳ παραθήσεσθαι συγγράμματι. 4.18.6 καὶ διάλογον δὲ πρὸς Ἰουδαίους συνέταξεν, ὃν ἐπὶ τῆς Ἐφεσίων πόλεως πρὸς Τρύφωνα τῶν τότε Ἑβραίων ἐπισημότατον πεποίηται· ἐν ᾧ τίνα τρόπον ἡ θεία χάρις αὐτὸν ἐπὶ τὸν τῆς πίστεως παρώρμησε λόγον, δηλοῖ ὁποίαν τε πρότερον περὶ τὰ φιλόσοφα μαθήματα σπουδὴν εἰσενήνεκται καὶ ὅσην ἐποιήσατο τῆς ἀληθείας 4.18.7 ἐκθυμοτάτην ζήτησιν. ἱστορεῖ δ' ἐν ταὐτῷ περὶ Ἰουδαίων ὡς κατὰ τῆς τοῦ Χριστοῦ διδασκαλίας ἐπιβουλὴν συσκευασαμένων, αὐτὰ ταῦτα πρὸς τὸν Τρύφωνα ἀποτεινόμενος· «οὐ μόνον δὲ οὐ μετενοήσατε ἐφ' οἷς ἐπράξατε κακῶς, ἀλλὰ ἄνδρας ἐκλεκτοὺς ἐκλεξάμενοι τότε ἀπὸ Ἱερουσαλὴμ ἐξεπέμψατε εἰς πᾶσαν τὴν γῆν, λέγοντες αἵρεσιν ἄθεον Χριστιανῶν πεφάνθαι καταλέγοντές τε ταῦτα ἅπερ καθ' ἡμῶν οἱ ἀγνοοῦντες ἡμᾶς πάντες λέγουσιν, ὥστε οὐ μόνον ἑαυτοῖς ἀδικίας αἴτιοι ὑπάρχετε, ἀλλὰ καὶ τοῖς ἄλλοις ἅπασιν ἁπλῶς ἀνθρώποις». 4.18.8 γράφει δὲ καὶ ὡς ὅτι μέχρι καὶ αὐτοῦ χαρίσματα προφητικὰ διέλαμπεν ἐπὶ τῆς ἐκκλησίας, μέμνηταί τε τῆς Ἰωάννου Ἀποκαλύψεως, σαφῶς τοῦ ἀποστόλου αὐτὴν εἶναι λέγων· καὶ ῥητῶν δέ τινων προφητικῶν μνημονεύει, διελέγχων τὸν Τρύφωνα ὡς δὴ περικοψάντων αὐτὰ Ἰουδαίων ἀπὸ τῆς γραφῆς. πλεῖστα δὲ καὶ ἕτερα παρὰ πολλοῖς φέρεται ἀδελφοῖς τῶν αὐτοῦ 4.18.9 πόνων, οὑτωσὶ δὲ σπουδῆς εἶναι ἄξιοι καὶ τοῖς παλαιοῖς ἐδόκουν οἱ τἀνδρὸς λόγοι, ὡς τὸν Εἰρηναῖον ἀπομνημονεύειν αὐτοῦ φωνάς, τοῦτο μὲν ἐν τῷ τετάρτῳ πρὸς τὰς αἱρέσεις αὐτὰ δὴ ταῦτα ἐπιλέγοντα· «καὶ καλῶς ὁ Ἰουστῖνος ἐν τῷ πρὸς Μαρκίωνα συντάγματί φησιν ὅτι αὐτῷ τῷ κυρίῳ οὐκ ἂν ἐπείσθην ἄλλον θεὸν καταγγέλλοντι παρὰ τὸν δημιουργόν». τοῦτο δὲ ἐν τῷ πέμπτῳ τῆς αὐτῆς ὑποθέσεως διὰ τούτων· «καὶ καλῶς ὁ Ἰουστῖνος ἔφη ὅτι πρὸ μὲν τῆς τοῦ κυρίου παρουσίας οὐδέποτε ἐτόλμησεν ὁ σατανᾶς βλασφημῆσαι τὸν θεόν, ἅτε μηδέπω εἰδὼς αὐτοῦ τὴν κατάκρισιν». 4.18.10 καὶ ταῦτα δὲ ἀναγκαίως εἰρήσθω εἰς προτροπὴν τοῦ μετὰ σπουδῆς τοὺς φιλομαθεῖς καὶ τοὺς τούτου περιέπειν λόγους. καὶ τὰ μὲν κατὰ τόνδε τοιαῦτα ἦν. 4.19.1 ἤδη δὲ εἰς ὄγδοον ἐλαυνούσης ἔτος τῆς δηλουμένης ἡγεμονίας, τῆς Ῥωμαίων ἐκκλησίας τὴν ἐπισκοπὴν Ἀνίκητον ἕνδεκα τοῖς πᾶσιν ἔτεσιν διελθόντα Σωτὴρ διαδέχεται, ἀλλὰ καὶ τῆς Ἀλεξανδρέων παροικίας Κελαδίωνος τέτταρσιν ἐπὶ δέκα ἔτεσιν προστάντος, τὴν διαδοχὴν Ἀγριππῖνος διαλαμβάνει, καὶ ἐπὶ τῆς Ἀντιοχέων δὲ ἐκκλησίας Θεόφιλος ἕκτος ἀπὸ τῶν ἀποστόλων ἐγνωρίζετο. τετάρτου μὲν τῶν ἐκεῖσε μετὰ Ἥρωνα καταστάντος Κορνηλίου, μετὰ δὲ αὐτὸν πέμπτῳ βαθμῷ τὴν ἐπισκοπὴν Ἔρωτος διαδεξαμένου. Ἤκμαζον δ' ἐν τούτοις ἐπὶ τῆς ἐκκλησίας Ἡγήσιππός τε, ὃν ἴσμεν ἐκ τῶν προτέρων, καὶ ∆ιονύσιος Κορινθίων ἐπίσκοπος Πινυτός τε ἄλλος τῶν ἐπὶ Κρήτης ἐπίσκοπος Φίλιππός τε ἐπὶ τούτοις καὶ Ἀπολινάριος καὶ Μελίτων Μουσανός τε καὶ Μόδεστος