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“Do you not see that he whom Moses speaks of as an angel who conversed with him from the fiery bush is the same who, being God, signifies to Moses that he is the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob?”

Try to read a couple pages each day after morning devo

It has been nice so far.

plato and socrates were christians…justin said it, not me !!!!

with the exception of those who are possessed with an unclean spirit, and who have been debased by education, by wicked customs, and by sinful institutions, and who have lost, or rather quenched and put under, their natural ideas.

For [God] sets before every race of mankind that which is always and universally just, as well as all righteousness; and every race knows that adultery, and fornication, and homicide, and such like, are sinful; and though they all commit such practices, yet they do not escape from the knowledge that they act unrighteously whenever they so do, ...

Om bibeln inte läses genom guds välvilja komemr den förefalla motsägelsefull. /Detta från en som just citerat flera av psalmerna, i öppen tro på dem som profetior. Kanske Justinus är värd att ta på allvar trots allt?

Sången som oundgänglig del av bönen

these we do see being actually accomplished in our sight. For he said, Many shall come in My name, clothed outwardly in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.’ “ And, There shall be schisms and heresies.’

The fact that there are such men confessing themselves to be Christians, and admitting the crucified Jesus to be both Lord and Christ, yet not teaching His doctrines, but those of the spirits of error, causes us who are disciples of the true and pure doctrine of Jesus Christ, to be more faithful and stedfast in the hope announced by Him. For what things He predicted would take place in His name,

Konstaterandet att Enok inte varit varesig omskuren eller sabbatshållande, eftersom Abraham och Moses instiftade de påbuden.

Tryphons fråga - hur kan ni kristna leva bland de andra utan att ändra era vanor och vidmakthålla rituell renhet?

Svar:
1) för att gud är allas gud.
2) för att livet måste vara en ständig sabbat.
3) för att det gamla förbundet ersätter det nya i dåd. /Detta skulle i så fall implicera att det gamla testamentet saknar värde, och att jesu egna ord var lögn, eller har misstolkat systematiskt.

They are called prophets. These alone both saw and announced the truth to men, neither reverencing nor fearing any man, not influenced by a desire for glory, but speaking those things alone which they saw and which they heard, being filled with the Holy Spirit.

Reading in the ANF edition

Reading the Dialogue in the ANF edition

Chapter 142 was a beautiful ending

Sounds like the same compatibilitism which I believe I saw in Origens Contra Celsum.

Chapter 141:
"But if the Word of God predicts that some creatures, men and angels, will assuredly be punished, it is because God foreknew that they would be incorrigibly sinful, not, however, because God created them so."
Also, he affirms that God created us with free will.

The parallels between Joshua and Jesus blew my mind

Why not just relate Deuteronomy 21:23 to Judas, instead of Christ? It would make more sense because, in Mosaic times, the punishment of crucifixion was not yet invented.

Chapter 94 is weak. The premise of Justin Martyrs argument is that God forbid the making of images unconditionally, which is already doubtful. Furthermore, he just about runs into the trap of seeing things commanded by God as just because He commanded them, instead of recognizing that if God commanded them, they were just to begin with. It is less bad than with Tertullian, however.

He shows very well how the doctrine of the Trinity is scriptural.

I have to keep chapter 61 in mind, it seems highly relevant for the doctrine of the trinity.

"Thus, even if there were two persons, as you claim, both an angel and God, yet no one with even the slightest intelligence would dare to assert that the Creator of all things left his super-celestial realms to make himself visible in a little spot on earth.”
Sounds a little like he establishes a hierarchy among the Divine Persons.

"Therefore, gentlemen, this prophecy which I have quoted shows that
Christ is not a man of mere human origin, begotten in the ordinary human way.”

“The phrase the blood of the grape indicates allegorically that
Christ has blood, not, however, from human seed, but from the
power of God. For, as God, not man, has made the blood of the
grape, so it has been foretold that the blood of Christ would
not be from human seed, but from divine power."

"And those prophetical words of Jacob, as recorded by Moses, namely, He shall wash his robe in wine, and his garment in the blood of the grape, signified that he would wash in his own blood those who believed in him. For the Holy Spirit called those whose sins were remitted by Christ, his robe, among whom he is always present in power, but will be manifestly present in person at his second coming."

How can Justin Martyr say that baptizing is a "spiritual circumcision" if he also thinks that the purpose of circumcision was to single the jews out for rightly deserved oppression?

The first parts were more interesting, but still, not a bad book at all.

"Moreover, the fact that females cannot receive circumcision of the flesh shows that circumcision was given as a sign, not as an act of justification. For God also bestowed on women the capability of performing every good and virtuous act."
How, then, did circumcision single the Jews out for destruction?