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Hortatory Address to the Greeks

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Justin’s Hortatory Address to the Greeks

[Translated by the Rev. M. Dods, M.A.]


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Chapter I.—Reasons for addressing the Greeks.

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Chapter II—The poets are unfit to be religious teachers.

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Chapter III.—Opinions of the school of Thales.

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Chapter IV.—Opinions of Pythagoras and Epicurus.

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Chapter V.—Opinions of Plato and Aristotle.

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Chapter VI.—Further disagreements between Plato and Aristotle.

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Chapter VII.—Inconsistencies of Plato’s doctrine.

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Chapter VIII.—Antiquity, inspiration, and harmony of Christian teachers.

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Chapter IX.—The antiquity of Moses proved by Greek writers.

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Chapter X—Training and inspiration of Moses.

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Chapter XI.—Heathen oracles testify of Moses.

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Chapter XII.—Antiquity of Moses proved.

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Chapter XIII.—History of the Septuagint.

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Chapter XIV.—A warning appeal to the Greeks.

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Chapter XV.—Testimony of Orpheus to monotheism.

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Chapter XVI.—Testimony of the Sibyl.

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Chapter XVII.—Testimony of Homer.

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Chapter XVIII.—Testimony of Sophocles.

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Chapter XIX.—Testimony of Pythagoras.

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Chapter XX.—Testimony of Plato.

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Chapter XXI.—The namelessness of God.

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Chapter XXII.—Studied ambiguity of Plato.

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Chapter XXIII.—Plato’s self-contradiction.

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Chapter XXIV.—Agreement of Plato and Homer.

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Chapter XXV.—Plato’s knowledge of God’s eternity.

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Chapter XXVI.—Plato indebted to the prophets.

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Chapter XXVII.—Plato’s knowledge of the judgment.

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Chapter XXVIII.—Homer’s obligations to the sacred writers.

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Chapter XXIX.—Origin of Plato’s doctrine of form.

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Chapter XXX.—Homer’s knowledge of man’s origin.

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Chapter XXXI.—Further proof of Plato’s acquaintance with Scripture.

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Chapter XXXII.—Plato’s doctrine of the heavenly gift.

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Chapter XXXIII.—Plato’s idea of the beginning of time drawn from Moses.

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Chapter XXXIV.—Whence men attributed to God human form.

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Chapter XXXV.—Appeal to the Greeks.

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Chapter XXXVI.—True knowledge not held by the philosophers.

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Chapter XXXVII.—Of the Sibyl.

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Chapter XXXVIII.—Concluding appeal.

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