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 Washington, D.C. NIHIL OBSTAT: JOSEPH A. M. QUIGLEY Censor Librorum IMPRIMATUR: + D. CARDINAL DOUGHERTY Archiepiscopus Philadelphiensis October 5, 1948 The nihil obstat and imprimatur are official declarations that a book or pamphlet is free of doctrinal or moral error. No implication is contained therein that those who have granted the nihil obstat and imprimatur agree with the content, opinions, or statements expressed. Library of Congress Catalog Card No.: 65-18317 ISBN 8132-0006-7 ISBN: 978-0-8132-1552-5 (pbk) Copyright © 1948 by THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA PRESS, INC. All rights reserved 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. 9