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==Life==
==Life==
Very little is known about the life of Justin Martyr, with his name only ever appearing in the title of his work. But is generally accepted that he was a [[philosopher]] who had experimented with [[Stoicism]], [[Pythagoreanism]] and [[Platonism]] who accepted [[Christianity]] around 132 AD; this event being the result of a challenge to the [[Old Testament|Jewish scriptures]]. It is also generally understood that Justin Martyr traveled extensively throughout the [[Roman Empire]] before was beheaded for his faith around 165 AD at the behest of the emperor [[Marcus Aurelius]]. But this narrative is questioned by [[Sir Ronald Syme]] as he argues for a date for ''Justin's History of the World'' being around AD 390 after the publication of [[Augustan History]].
Very little is known about the life of Justin Martyr, with his name only ever appearing in the title of his work. But is generally accepted that he was a [[philosopher]] who had experimented with [[Stoicism]], [[Pythagoreanism]] and [[Platonism]] who accepted [[Christianity]] around 132 AD; this event being the result of a challenge to the [[Old Testament|Jewish scriptures]]. It is also generally understood that Justin Martyr traveled extensively throughout the [[Roman Empire]] before was beheaded for his faith around 165 AD at the behest of the emperor [[Marcus Aurelius]]. But this narrative is questioned by [[Sir Ronald Syme]] as he argues for a date for ''Justin's History of the World'' being around AD 390 after the publication of [[Augustan History]].
==Quotes==
"''No one who is rightly minded turns from true belief to false.''"
"''To yield and give way to our passions is the lowest slavery, even as to rule over them is the only liberty.''" - Fragment 18
"''Everyone who flees from what is superficially good and follows what is reckoned hard and foolish finds happiness awaiting him.''" - Second Apology
"''Let it be understood that those who are not found living as He taught are not Christian - even though they profess with the lips the teaching of Christ.''"
"''We will not require that you punish our accusers; they being sufficiently punished by their present wickedness and ignorance of what is right.''" - First Apology, Chapter 7
"''When you hear that we look for a kingdom, you suppose, without making any inquiry, that we speak of a human kingdom; whereas we speak of that which is with God.''" - First Apology, Chapter 11
"''For we ought not to strive; neither has He (Jesus) desired us to be imitators of wicked men, but He has exhorted us to lead all men, by patience and gentleness, from shame and the love of evil.''" - First Apology, Chapter 16
"''And the perception of immaterial things quite overpowered me, and the contemplation of ideas furnished my mind with wings, so that in a little while I supposed that I had become wise; and such was my stupidity, I expected forthwith to look upon God, for this is the end of Plato's philosophy.''" - Dialogue with Trypho - Chapter 2
"''Hence are we called atheists. And we confess that we are atheists, so far as gods of this sort are concerned, but not with respect to the most true God, the Father of righteousness and temperance and the other virtues, who is free from all impurity. But both Him, and the Son who came forth from Him and taught us these things, and the host of the other good angels who follow and are made like to Him, and the prophetic Spirit, we worship and adore, knowing them in reason and truth, and declaring without grudging to every one who wishes to learn, as we have been taught.''" - First Apology - Chapter 6