The Apologies of Justin Martyr: To which is Appended The Epistle to Diognetus

Saint Justin (Martyr)

Harper & brothers, 1877 - Apologetics - 289 pages

Contents

• INTRODUCTION: vii
• FIRST APOLOGY: xxii
• Chapter: xxxii
• Address: 3
• Right to a fair trial: 4
• Why condemn a name?: 5
• Christians no atheists: 6
• Our God is not as your gods: 7
• This Life is not worth a lie We aspire while we ex pire: 8
• Conclusion Exhortation to Diognetus to become: 10
• Chapter Page 25 Christians abandon the world of false gods: 23
• Human agents of the demons: 24
• Guilt of exposing children: 25
• God cares for His creatures: 26
• But was not Christ a magician ?: 27
• Christ foretold of Moses: 28
• Manner of Christs birth foretold: 30
• Place of Christs birth foretold: 32
• Prophets represent different persons: 33
• The Father speaks: 34
• The Spirit itself speaks: 35
• Advent of Christ foretold: 36
• Christs kingdom foretold: 38
• Doctrine of human responsibility: 39
• This doctrine the doctrine of the prophets: 40
• Christs throning in Heaven foretold: 42
• Desolation of Judea predicted: 43
• Predictions of Christs work and death: 44
• Christs humiliation foretold: 45
• The majesty of Christ: 47
• Sure word of prophecy: 48
• Importance of prophecies for faith: 49
• How the myths of the heathen originated: 50
• The Cross: 52
• The demons still at work: 53
• The demons instigate persecution: 54
• What Plato owed to Moses: 55
• Christian baptism: 57
• Chapter Page 62 Baptism imitated by the demons: 58
• Gods appearing to Moses: 59
• Other travesties of Scripture by the demons: 61
• The Eucharist: 62
• First day of the week: 63
• Conclusion: 64
• Introduction: 67
• Justin and Crescens: 70
• Why Christians do not kill themselves: 71
• Names of God and of Christ: 72
• The world preserved for the sake of Christians: 73
• The world hates the bearers of the seed: 74
• Eternal punishment a necessity of Gods existence: 75
• Comparison of Christ with Socrates: 76
• How Christians regard death: 77
• Innocence of Christians proved by their contempt of death: 78
• The Word has been in all men: 79
• Justin prays that this appeal be published: 80
• Conclusion: 81
• Introduction The questions of Diognetus: 83
• their superstitious sacrifices: 85
• their customs and condition: 86
• They are the soul of the world: 87
• Their religion not of man but of God: 88
• The wretched state of the world before the Son of God came: 89
• Idol worship is idle worship 8: 121
• Proper worship of God 9: 122
• My kingdom is not of this world 11: 124
• As ever in our great Taskmasters eye 11: 125
• Our reasonable service 12: 129
• The demons malign Christians 13: 131
• Christs own teachings 14: 133
• Bear all things Swear not at all 15: 136
• Render unto Caesar 17: 139
• Proofs of immortality 18: 140
• Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you that God should raise the dead? 18: 142
• Heathen analogies Teste David cum Sibylla 20: 146
• Christs sonship and its analogies 21: 148
• Statement of the argument 22: 149
• Variations of Heathenism 23: 150
• Addition by another hand I speak with authority I: 257
• Index of Texts: 275

Popular passages

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Page iii - And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers: unto which promise our twelve tribes, instantly serving God day and night, hope to come. For which hope's sake, king Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews. Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead...

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Page 226 - When the subject of the Infinitive is the same as the subject of the leading verb, the subject of the Infinitive is not necessarily expressed : *Nl parere veils pereundum erit ante lucernas.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Apologies of Justin Martyr: To which is Appended The Epistle to Diognetus; Volume 5 of Douglass series of Christian Greek and Latin writers
• Author: Saint Justin (Martyr)
• Editor: Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve
• Contributor: Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve
• Publisher: Harper & brothers, 1877
• Original from: Harvard University
• Digitized: Nov 29, 2006
• Length: 289 pages