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Justin Martyr
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Introductory Note to the Writings of Justin Martyr
[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.
[2528] ἐντελέχεια, —the completion or actuality to which each thing, by virtue of its peculiar nature (or potentiality, δύναμις), can arrive.
Chapter VII.—Inconsistencies of Plato’s doctrine.
[2529] Literally, “unbegotten.”
[2530] Or, “liable to destruction.”
Chapter VIII.—Antiquity, inspiration, and harmony of Christian teachers.
[2531] Literally, “the art of words.”
[2532] Literally, “clean,” free from other influences.
[2533] [The diversities of Christian theology are to be regretted; but Justin here shows the harmony and order of truths, such as are everywhere received by Christians, to be an inestimable advantage.]
Chapter IX.—The antiquity of Moses proved by Greek writers.
[2534] The incongruity in this sentence is Justin’s.
[2535] [Autochthones]. That is, sprung from the soil; and hence the oldest inhabitants, the aborigines.
[2536] Literally, archæology.
[2537] Unfortunately, Justin here mistook Menes for Moses. [But he may have so read the name in his copy. See Grabe’s note on Diodorus, and the quotation following in another note.]
[2538] This sentence must be so completed from the context in Diodorus. See the note of Maranus.
Chapter X—Training and inspiration of Moses.
[2539] [Consult the ponderous learning of Warburton’s Divine Legation, passim.]
Chapter XII.—Antiquity of Moses proved.
[2540] Literally, “without,” not belonging to the true faith.
[2541] C. 3.
Chapter XIII.—History of the Septuagint.
[2542] [Doubtless Justin relates the tradition as he received it. Consult Dr. Selwyn’s full account of the fables concerning the LXX., in Smith’s Dict. of the Bible, iii. p. 1203 ff.]
Chapter XVII.—Testimony of Homer.
[2543] Iliad, ix. 445.
[2544] Iliad, ii. 204.
Chapter XIX.—Testimony of Pythagoras.
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