Justin Martyr

On Justin’s Apology

April 25, 2015 By EO Leave a Comment

THE LITURGICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF JUSTIN MARTYR’S APOLOGY Martin M. Davis [Mr Davis is an Anglican] Justin Martyr wrote his famous Apology from Rome circa 150 A.D. He wrote to defend the Christian faith against attackers who claimed that Christians practiced cannibalism (they ate flesh and drank blood) as well as incest (brothers and sisters kissed […]

Justin Martyr and Eusebius on Substitutionary Atonement

April 25, 2015 By EO Leave a Comment

Justin Martyr, (AD 100–ca.165) “Just as God commanded the sign to be made by the brazen serpent, and yet He is blameless; even so, though a curse lies in the law against persons who are crucified, yet no curse lies on the Christ of God, by whom all that have committed things worthy of a […]

“No doctrine concerning the divine and saving mysteries of the faith, however trivial, may be taught without the backing of the holy Scriptures. We must not let ourselves be drawn aside by mere persuasion and cleverness of speech. Do not even give absolute belief to me, the one who tells you these things, unless you receive proof from the divine Scriptures of what I teach. For the faith that brings us salvation acquires its force, not from fallible reasonings, but from what can be proved out of the holy Scriptures.” Cyril of Jerusalem (ca. 313-386)