Justin Martyr: Quotes about hate

Justin Martyr was early Christian martyr. Explore interesting quotes on hate.

Justin Martyr: 12 quotes2 likes

“The demons have always effected that all those who ever so little strived to live by logos and shun vice be hated.”

Source: Second Apology, in Readings in World Christian History (2013), p. 40

“…we who valued above all things the acquisition of wealth and possessions, now bring what we have into a common stock, and communicate to every one in need; we who hated and destroyed one another, and on account of their different manners would not live with men of a different tribe, now, since the coming of Christ, live familiarly with them, and pray for our enemies, and endeavour to persuade those who hate us unjustly to live conformably to the good precepts of Christ, to the end that they may become partakers with us of the same joyful hope of a reward from God the ruler of all.”

Justin Martyr book First Apology of Justin Martyr

First Apology, chap. xiv (trans. Marcus Dods)

“The Jews were behind all the persecutions of the Christians. They wandered through the country everywhere hating and undermining the Christian faith.”

Source: See Antichrist and the Tribe of Dan https://books.google.com.br/books?id=mF8OAQAAIAAJ by Gerald Burton Winrod, Defender Publishers, 1933.