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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