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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?