Justin Martyr
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The demons have always effected that all those who ever so little strived to live by logos and shun vice be hated.
— Second Apology, in Readings in World Christian History (2013), p. 40
Justin Martyr
2nd century CE Christian apologist and martyr
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- Fame62.3
- Momentum21.9
- Academics rank#92
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Lived 100–165, aged 65
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A second-century philosopher who argued that Socrates and Plato had been Christians without knowing it — then died for the faith he spent his career defending in writing to Roman emperors.
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Born around 90–100 AD, Justin came to Christianity as a trained philosopher and never stopped thinking like one. His First Apology made the case directly to Emperor Antoninus Pius: stop the persecutions, because Christians live moral lives and the Logos they follow had appeared in fragments throughout history, even among the Greeks. He taught that the truth Socrates and Plato glimpsed was the same truth now incarnate in Christ. Around 165, during the reign of Marcus Aurelius, Justin and several of his students were executed for refusing to sacrifice to the Roman gods. The Catholic, Eastern Ort…
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Justin Martyr
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The Jews were behind all the persecutions of the Christians. They wandered through the country everywhere hating and undermining the Christian faith.
— See Antichrist and the Tribe of Dan by Gerald Burton Winrod, Defender Publishers, 1933.
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