The First Apology, The Second Apology, Dialogue with Trypho, Exhortation to the Greeks, Discourse to the Greeks, The Monarchy of the Rule of God

475 Pages·2008·21 MB·English

by  Justin Martyr (Author)

THE FATHERS
OF THE CHURCH
A NEW TRANSLATION
VOLUME 6
THE FATHERS
OF THE CHURCH
A NEW TRANSLATION
EDITORIAL BOARD
HERMIGILD DRESSLER, O.F.M.
Quincy College
Editorial Director
ROBERT P. RUSSELL.O.S.A. THOMAS P. HALTON
Villanova University The Catholic University of America
WILLIAM R. TONGUE SISTER M. JOSEPHINE BRENNAN, I.H.M.
The Catholic University of America Marywood College
FORMER EDITORIAL DIRECTORS
LUDWIG SCHOPP, Roy J. DEFERRARI, BERNARD M. PEEBLES
WRITINGS
OF
SAINT JUSTIN MARTYR

SAINT JUSTIN MARTYR
THE FIRST APOLOGY
THE SECOND APOLOGY
DIALOGUE WITH TRYPHO
EXHORTATION TO THE GREEKS
DISCOURSE TO THE GREEKS
THE MONARCHY
or
THE RULE OF GOD
by
THOMAS B. FALLS, D.D., Ph.D.
St. Charles Seminary
Overbrook, Pennsylvania
THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA PRESS
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ISBN 8132-0006-7
ISBN: 978-0-8132-1552-5 (pbk)
Copyright © 1948 by
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Second Printing 1965
Third Printing 1977
First paperback reprint 2008
CONTENTS
FOREWORD 9
THE FIRST APOLOGY
Introduction 23
Text. 33
THE SECOND APOLOGY
Introduction · 115
Text. · 119
DIALOGUE WITH TRYPHO
Introduction · 139
Text. · 147
EXHORTATION TO THE GREEKS
Introduction · 369
Text. · 373
DISCOURSE TO THE GREEKS
Introduction .427
Text. · 431
THE MONARCHY or THE RULE OF GOD
Introduction .439
Text. .443
INDEX . .457

FOREWORD
T JUSTIN MARTYR is known as the outstanding apo
~
logist1 of the second century. While the Apostolic
Fathers2 like St. Clement of Rome, St. Ignatius of
Antioch, and St. Polycarp had addressed their letters and
admonitions to communities and members within the Chris
tian fold, St. Justin is considered to be the first prominent
defender of the Christian faith against non-Christians:! and
the enemies· of the Church.
The chief sources for the uncertain and meager chronolo
gical data of Justin's life are his own writings, the two
Apologies and the Dialogue with Trypho. The circumstances
leading up to his conversion are recorded in the first eight
chapters of the Dialogue, and the events surrounding his
death are reported in the Acta SS. Justini et Sociorum, an
authentic source of the latter part of the second century.
Historians place his birth in the beginning of the second
century (ca. 100-110 A.D.) at Flavia Neapolis5 (today Na
blCis) in Samaria. Although St. Epiphanius6 calls him a
1 For Christian Apologists. cf. R. Arbesmann in Foreword to Vol.
of The Writings of Tertullian in this series.
2 The A. postolic Fathers is a collective name. in use since the seventeenth
century. for a group of Christian writers who either were or were
believed to be discip,les of the Apostles. Cf. K. Bihlmeyer. Die apo
stolischen Vater (Tuhingen 1924) VIIf. A translation of The Aposto
lic Fathers by F. X. Climm. J.-F. Marique and C.C. Walsh is found
in the first volume of this series.
11 Cf. his Dialogue with Trypho pp. 147-~ below.
4 Cf. his two Apologies pp. 1111-135 below.
S Cf. 1 Apol. 1. It was called Flavia in honor of Flavius Vespasian
who had built this city on the ruins of Sichem. formerly the capital
of Samaria.
6 Cf. Haereses 46.
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