name was that he had dabbled with little profit in many
schools before he was converted to Christianity by an old man who gave
him the Christian interpretation of the Old Testament.

Justin is in fact not much more philosophic than Hermas. His
Christology is the incarnation of the Logos; but Logos is for him
merely the name of a second God who is responsible for creation and
redemption. Of the many books which he is said to have written only
his two Apologies and his Dialogue with Trypho are extant. The latter
is a long rambling exposition of the proof from the Old Testament, in
the Septuagint version, that there is a "second God," and that his
incarnation in Jesus was foretold. The Apologies also are full of
proof from the Old Testament, but contain most valuable statements as
to the Christian cult and its sacraments. They are also remarkable for
insisting that the heathen religions are due to the clumsy efforts of
demons to deceive men by false fulfilments of scripture.

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Justin was not a man of commanding intellect, but he seems to have
brought Ephesian Christianity to Rome, and so began in that city the
synthesis with Greek philosophy which the later Pauline epistles and
Fourth Gospel began in Ephesus and Origen completed in Alexandria. He
appears to have been martyred in Rome, perhaps owing to the hostility
of Crescens, a cynic philosopher with whom he had quarrelled. The acts
of his martyrdom are extant; the most significant point in them is his
dissociation from other bodies of Christians in Rome.[19] This is seen
from the following extract from his examination by Rusticus the Prefect:

"Rusticus the prefect said, 'Where do you assemble?' Justin said,
'Where inclination and ability lead each of us. For do you really
think that we all assemble in the same place? That is not the case,
because the God of the Christians is not locally circumscribed, but,
though he cannot be seen, fills heaven and earth and receives worship
and glorification from the faithful in all places.' Rusticus the
prefect said, 'Tell me where you assemble or in what place you collect
your disciples.' Justin said, 'I am staying above the baths of a
certain Martin, the son of Timothinus, and throughout this period (it
is my second visit to Rome) I am unacquainted with any other assembly
except that in this house. And if {128} any one wished to come with
me, I communicated to him the words of truth.'"[20]

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