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Justin Martyr
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Introductory Note to the Writings of Justin Martyr
[2507] Literally, “former.”
Chapter II—The poets are unfit to be religious teachers.
[2508] Iliad, xiv. 302.
[2509] Iliad, xix. 224.
[2510] That is, Venus, who, after Paris had sworn that the war should be decided by single combat between himself and Menelaus, carried him off, and induced him, though defeated, to refuse performance of the articles agreed upon.
[2511] Iliad, xvi. 433. Sarpedon was a son of Zeus.
[2512] Iliad, xxii. 168.
[2513] Iliad, i. 399, etc.
[2514] Iliad, xiv. 315. (The passage is here given in full from Cowper’s translation. In Justin’s quotation one or two lines are omitted.)
[2515] Iliad, v. 382 (from Lord Derby’s translation).
[2516] Iliad, xx. 66 (from Lord Derby’s translation).
Chapter III.—Opinions of the school of Thales.
[2517] i.e., these teachers.
[2518] Literally, “those who knew.”
Chapter IV.—Opinions of Pythagoras and Epicurus.
[2519] μονάδα καὶ τὴν ἀόριστον δυάδα. One, or unity, was considered by Pythagoras as the essence of number, and also as God. Two, or the indefinite binary, was the equivalent of evil. So Plutarch, De placit. philosoph., c. 7; from which treatise the above opinions of the various sects are quoted, generally verbatim.
[2520] ἀμέτοχα κενοῦ: the void being that in which these bodies move, while they themselves are of a different nature from it.
[2521] Or, accord and discord, attraction and repulsion.
Chapter V.—Opinions of Plato and Aristotle.
[2522] Or, “is of a fiery nature.”
[2523] See the Republic, x. 2. By the Platonic doctrine, the ideas of things in the mind of God were the realities; the things themselves, as seen by us, were the images of these realities; and poetry, therefore, describing the images of realities, was only at the third remove from nature. As Plato puts it briefly in this same passage, “the painter, the bed-maker, God—these three are the masters of three species of beds.”
[2524] Iliad, xv. 192.
[2525] i.e., from Homer; using Homer’s words as suggestive and confirmatory of his doctrine.
[2526] Iliad, xiv. 246.
Chapter VI.—Further disagreements between Plato and Aristotle.
[2527] τὸ λογικόν τὸ θυμικόν, τὸ ἐπιθυμητικόν, —corresponding to what we roughly speak of as reason, the heart, and the appetites.
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