Justin Martyr
2nd century · AD 165 · Early Fathers (before Nicaea) · 172 passages
A philosopher who became a Christian and defended the faith to emperors and Jewish teachers, reading the Old Testament as pointing to Christ.
In his own words on Philippians
- Philippians 3:5
"But who are you, most excellent man?" So I replied to him in jest. Then he told me frankly both his name and his family. "Trypho," says he, "I am called; and I am a Hebrew of the circumcision, and having escaped from the war lately carried on there I am spending my days in Greece, and chiefly at Corinth." "And in what," said I, "would you be profited by philosophy so much as by your own lawgiver and the prophets?"
Dialogue with Trypho, Chapter I
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