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Saint Justin Martyr
Hortatory Address to the Greeks
2nd c.
Classic translation
Public domain
Apologetics · English translation, 1890
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Contents
Hortatory Address to the Greeks
Chapter I.—Reasons for Addressing the Greeks
Chapter II—The Poets Are Unfit to Be Religious Teachers
Chapter III.—Opinions of the School of Thales
Chapter IV.—Opinions of Pythagoras and Epicurus
Chapter V.—Opinions of Plato and Aristotle
Chapter VI.—Further Disagreements Between Plato and Aristotle
Chapter VII.—Inconsistencies of Plato’s Doctrine
Chapter VIII.—Antiquity, Inspiration, and Harmony of Christian Teachers
Chapter IX.—The Antiquity of Moses Proved by Greek Writers
Chapter X—Training and Inspiration of Moses
Chapter XI.—Heathen Oracles Testify of Moses
Chapter XII.—Antiquity of Moses Proved
Chapter XIII.—History of the Septuagint
Chapter XIV.—A Warning Appeal to the Greeks
Chapter XV.—Testimony of Orpheus to Monotheism
Chapter XVI.—Testimony of the Sibyl
Chapter XVII.—Testimony of Homer
Chapter XVIII.—Testimony of Sophocles
Chapter XIX.—Testimony of Pythagoras
Chapter XX.—Testimony of Plato
Chapter XXI.—The Namelessness of God
Chapter XXII.—Studied Ambiguity of Plato
Chapter XXIII.—Plato’s Self-contradiction
Chapter XXIV.—Agreement of Plato and Homer
Chapter XXV.—Plato’s Knowledge of God’s Eternity
Chapter XXVI.—Plato Indebted to the Prophets
Chapter XXVII.—Plato’s Knowledge of the Judgment
Chapter XXVIII.—Homer’s Obligations to the Sacred Writers
Chapter XXIX.—Origin of Plato’s Doctrine of Form
Chapter XXX.—Homer’s Knowledge of Man’s Origin
Chapter XXXI.—Further Proof of Plato’s Acquaintance With Scripture
Chapter XXXII.—Plato’s Doctrine of the Heavenly Gift
Chapter XXXIII.—Plato’s Idea of the Beginning of Time Drawn From Moses
Chapter XXXIV.—Whence Men Attributed to God Human Form
Chapter XXXV.—Appeal to the Greeks
Chapter XXXVI.—True Knowledge Not Held by the Philosophers
Chapter XXXVII.—Of the Sibyl
Chapter XXXVIII.—Concluding Appeal