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Dialogue with Trypho

Name: Dialogue with Trypho
Author: Justin Martyr

Justin Martyr

“But yet, since He knew that it would be good, He created both angels and men free to do that which is righteous, and He appointed periods of time during which He knew it would be good for them to have the exercise of free-will; and because He likewise knew it would be good, He made general and particular judgments; each one’s freedom of will, however, being guarded.”

Justin Martyr book Dialogue with Trypho

Dialogue with Trypho, chapter CII. In ANF1, that is, Roberts A, Donaldson J and Coxe AC (1885) Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol 1. [Cf chapter LXXXVIII.]

“For there is not one single race of men, whether barbarians, or Greeks, or whatever they may be called, nomads, or vagrants, or herdsmen living in tents, among whom prayers and giving of thanks are not offered through the name of the crucified Jesus.”

Justin Martyr book Dialogue with Trypho

Dialogue with Trypho, chapter CXVII. c160AD. In ANF1, that is, Roberts A, Donaldson J and Coxe AC (1885) Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol 1. [ANF1 footnote: "Note this testimony to the ... Church in the second century...."]

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