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Justin Martyr
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Introductory Note to the Writings of Justin Martyr
[1922] Literally, “both yesterday and the day before.”
[1923] [See Grabe’s note on the conjecture of Valesius that this prefect was Lollius Urbicus, the historian (vol. i. p. 1. and notes, p. 1).]
[1924] [He has addressed them as “Romans,” because in this they gloried together,—emperor, senate, soldiers, and citizens.]
Chapter II.—Urbicus condemns the Christians to death.
[1925] ἀκολασταίνοντι, which word includes unchastity, as well as the other forms of intemperance. [As we say, dissolute.]
[1926] ῥεπούδιον, i.e., “repudium,” a bill of repudiation.
[1927] [Rather, “to thee, autocrat:” a very bold apostrophe, like that of Huss to the Emperor Sigismund, which crimsoned his forehead with a blush of shame.]
[1928] i.e., Ptolemæus.
[1929] On this passage, see Donaldson’s Critical History, etc., vol. ii. p. 79.
Chapter III.—Justin accuses Crescens of ignorant prejudice against the Christians.
[1930] Words resembling “philosopher” in sound, viz. φιλοψόφου καὶ φιλοκόμπου. [This passage is found elsewhere. See note, cap. viii., in the text preferred by Grabe.]
[1931] φιλόδοξος, which may mean a lover of vainglory.
[1932] See Plato, Rep., p. 595.
Chapter VII.—The world preserved for the sake of Christians. Man’s responsibility.
[1933] This is Dr. Donaldson’s rendering of a clause on which the editors differ both as to reading and rendering.
[1934] Literally, “becoming (γινόμενον) both through the parts and through the whole in every wickedness.”
Chapter VIII.—All have been hated in whom the Word has dwelt.
[1935] [Here, in Grabe’s text, comes in the passage about Crescens.]
Chapter IX.—Eternal punishment not a mere threat.
[1936] These words can be taken of the Logos as well as of the right reason diffused among men by Him.
Chapter X.—Christ compared with Socrates.
[1937] Plato, Rep., x. c. i. p. 595.
[1938] Plat., Timæus, p. 28, C. (but “possible,” and not “safe,” is the word used by Plato).
[1939] [Certainly the author of this chapter, and others like it, cannot be accused of a feeble rhetoric.]
Chapter XI.—How Christians view death.
[1940] Another reading is πρὸς τὰς ὄψεις, referring to the eyes of the beholder; and which may be rendered, “speedily fascinating to the sight.”
[1941] Καὶ φευκτοῦ θανάτου may also be rendered, “even of death which men flee from.”
Chapter XII.—Christians proved innocent by their contempt of death.
[1942] Alluding to the common accusation against the Christians.
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