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| Chapter XXIII.—The argument.
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Chapter XXIII.—The argument.
world" title="170" id="viii.ii.xxiii-p1.2"/>And that
this may now become evident to you—(firstly1814
| 1814 The Benedictine editor, Maranus, Otto, and
Trollope, here note that Justin in this chapter promises to make good
three distinct positions: 1st, That Christian doctrines alone are true,
and are to be received, not on account of their resemblance to the
sentiments of poets and philosophers, but on their own account; 2d, that
Jesus Christ is the incarnate Son of God, and our teacher; 3d that before
His incarnation, the demons, having some knowledge of what He would
accomplish, enabled the heathen poets and priest in some points to
anticipate, though in a distorted form, the facts of the incarnation. The
first he establishes in chap. xxiv-xxix.; the second in chap. xxx.-liii.;
and the third in chap. liv. et sq. | ) that whatever we assert
in conformity with what has been taught us by Christ, and by the prophets
who preceded Him, are alone true, and are older than all the writers who
have existed; that we claim to be acknowledged, not because we say the
same things as these writers said, but because we say true things: and
(secondly) that Jesus Christ is the only proper Son who has been begotten
by God, being His Word and first-begotten, and power; and, becoming man
according to His will, He
taught us these things for the
conversion and restoration of the human race: and (thirdly) that before
He became a man among men, some, influenced by the demons before
mentioned, related beforehand, through the instrumentality of the poets,
those circumstances as having really happened, which, having fictitiously
devised, they narrated, in the same manner as they have caused to be
fabricated the scandalous reports against us of infamous and impious
actions,1815
| 1815 We have here
followed the reading and rendering of Trollope. [But see reading of
Langus, and Grabe’s note, in the edition already cited, 1. 46.]
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