Trypho thanks Justin, and they part. TRYPH. 243 wife of Uriah proves, Sirs, I said, that the Patriarchs did not DIAL. marry many wives as if in fornication, but that all things were accomplished by them as a kind of economy and as mysteries; for if any one were permitted to take whom he would to wife, and as he pleased, and as many as he liked, as your countrymen do throughout the world, wherever they are sojourning, or to whatever place they are sent, taking women in the name of marriage, much more would it have been permitted to David to do so." Having said this, dearest Marcus Pompeius, I ceased speaking. Jews their and Trypho after pausing for a time said, "You see that it was The not from design that we entered on a conversation with you give on these subjects, and I confess that I have been exceedingly Justin gratified by our meeting, and I think that these friends of mine thanks will feel like myself; for we have found more than we ex- leave pected, or than it was possible for us ever to have expected. him. But if we could do this more frequently, we should derive more profit, examining the very words [of Scripture]: but since, he said, you are on the point of leaving, and daily expect to sail, do not think it a trouble to remember us as your friends when you go away." "For my part," I replied, "if I had to remain, I would have wished to do this same thing every day but expecting now, God willing and aiding, to set sail, I exhort you to apply yourselves to this very great struggle1 for your own' ayŵva. salvation, and to be careful to prefer the Christ of Almighty God to your teachers." After this they left me, praying that I might be preserved both from the dangers of my voyage, and from every calamity. And I prayed for them, and said, "I cannot wish you, Sirs, any greater benefit, than that, knowing that through this way wisdom is given to every man, you may assuredly believe with us that ours is the Christ of God." The original reading is va.... πάντως καὶ αὐτοὶ ἡμῖν ὅμοια ποιήσητε, to which the Benedictine proposes either to supply the word voûv, reading μolov for Suola, that you may have the same conviction, &c. or, still better perhaps, for ποιήσητε he would read πιστεύσητε, that you may believe with us; the ? For the τὸ ἡμῶν εἶναι τὸν Χριστὸν INDEX. This Index is taken, with some few alterations, from that of the Benedictine Edition. A. ABRAHAM, Christians, not Arabs or Idumeans, the "nations" promised to him, 218. Christians his race, 85. their call like his, 218. his faith approved in uncircumcision, 85, 99. the first who received circumcision, 94. a Christian, 35. Achilles, 19. Acts, (see Pilate.) Adam, the abode of God's inspiration, 120. did not fulfil a thousand years, 176. (see Sin.) Adonis, loved by Proserpine and Venus, 19. Adrian, being consulted by many Governors of Provinces how the Christians should be dealt with, replied, that they should not be disturbed, unless they attempted something against the government, 54. in his letter to Fundanus, required that the proceedings should be in regular form, 53. that recourse should not be had to clamour, ibid. if any offence against the laws should be proved, punishment should be inflicted accordingly, ibid. malicious informers to be severely dealt with, ibid. Advents, two, 39, 120,206. (see Christ.) at the second, death utterly destroyed, 125. the Jews shall then see Him whom they have pierced, 89. their words then foretold by Zechariah, 39. some shall then be sent to eternal fire, others shall obtain immortality, 125. Esculapius, a diabolical connterfeit of the prophecies of Christ's healing power, 42, 160. ascended into heaven, 16. Amalek, to be destroyed by the true Joshua, 233. Amen at the end of the eucharistic prayer, 51. Ammonites, still a great multitude, 218. Amphilochus, his oracle an argument that souls are in a state of sensation after death, 14. Ananias, Azarias, and Misael, were Christians, 35. "Angel of God," the, our Lord, 48, 139, 140, 144, 145, 147, 148, 168, 190, 226, 227. Angel, the term applied to prophets, 167. Angels, not transient but permanent existences, 229. are nourished in heaven though not with the same food as we, 143. for the manna is called "angels' food," ibid. if the "angel" at Mamre ate, He may have eaten as fire is said to eat, ibid. Christians reverence good angels, 4. who follow and imitate the Son, ibid. God delivered to angels the care of man, and of things under heaven, 61. they transgressed this order, and of the daughters of men begat the demons, ibid. enslaved the human race by teaching magic, terrors, and sacrifices, which their debased nature craved, ibid. introduced all vices amongst men, ibid. deeds of evil angels ascribed by the poets to God Himself and to His " sons, "brothers," and their 66 sons," ibid. the names of the heathen gods and heroes are those which the angels and demons assumed, ibid. the existence of evil angels proved from Scripture, 173. had power over the souls of prophets and righteous men like Samuel after their death, 202. Animals, the same worshipped by some, sacrificed by others, disregarded by others of the heathen, 18, 19. so that all are impious in each other's eyes, 18. Antichrist, the man of the apostasy, 206. his impiety and persecutions immediately precede the second Advent, ibid. now at the door, 109. his duration, ibid. his blasphemies, ibid, 206. Antinous, worshipped by all, though they know his character and origin, 23. 19. Antiope, paramour of Jupiter, Antoninus, 1. a lover of piety and philosophy, 8. his sons likewise, 2. his letter to States General of Asia, 53. adopts Adrian's judgment about the Christians, that they should be released if only accused as such, and the informer should be punished, 54. prevented the Jews from putting Christians to death, 91. Apocalypse, written by St. John, one of the Apostles, 176. Apostle, this title applied to our Lord, 48. to the prophets, 167. Apostles, twelve men obscure and unskilled in speaking through the power of God went out to teach all the world, 29. after Christ's resurrection, repented of having forsaken Him, 203. represented by the twelve bells hanging from the high priest's ephod, 121. the Gospels described as their records, 51, 196, 197, 199, 201, 202, 203. our Lord's changing the names of some of them, indicates that it was He who changed the names of Jacob and Hoshea, 203. Archelaus, succeeded Herod, and died before Christ's crucifixion, 200. Ariadne, placed among the stars, 16. Ashdod, the kine led by the name of Jesus, 233, 234. Ass and Colt, meaning of, 136. Assyrians, king of, denotes Herod, 170, 200. Aurelius, his letter to the people and senate detailing his deliverance at Carnutum by a wonderful shower granted to the prayers of his Christian soldiers, 55. he decrees that any who accuses Christians as such shall be burnt alive, ibid. and those who confess themselves Christians shall not be forced to retract, or be deprived of freedom, ibid. Atheism, Christians charged with, 4. the charge refuted, 9. B. Bacchius, Justin's grandfather, 1. Bacchus, 16. legends respecting him a diabolical imitation of the prophecies, 42, 160. his crimes, 19. Banners, have the form of the cross, 43. always accompany the emperors, ibid. signs of their rule and authority, ibid. Baptism, the laver of repentance and of the knowledge of God, 87. the washing of salvation, 86. prophesied of by Isaiah, ibid. 47. remedy of our unholy birth, and remission of actual sins, 47. that we might not remain children of necessity and ignorance, but of choice and knowledge, ibid. through it we have believed, 87. the spiritual circumcision received thereby, 122. it is administered to those who choose the new birth and repent of sins, 47. who believe all that we teach, and promise to live accordingly, 46. its form, 46, 47. preceded by fasting and prayer, ibid. the baptized taken to join in the common prayers, 50. satanic imitations of it, 48. the Jewish washings bear no relation to Christian baptism, 93. the baptized need not that baptism, 105. it cleanses the flesh alone, 88. a broken cistern, ibid. the baptized has the testimony of God in his favour, 105. if the soul be baptized from sin the whole body will be pure, 88. At our Lord's Baptism a fire was kindled in the Jordan, 184. His baptism, the descent of the Spirit in the form of a dove, and the voice of the Father, all on our account, 184, 185. how Ps. ii. 7. was then fulfilled, ibid. Baptista, a sect among the Jews, 174. Barchochebas, ringleader of the Jews in the last revolt, persecuted the Christians, 24. Barren, God can make to conceive, 178. as Hannah, Sarah, and Elisabeth, and others, ibid. 179. Basilidians, heretics, 114. Bellerophon, went up to heaven, 16, 42. Bells, the twelve hanging from the high priest's ephod represent the twelve Apostles, 121. Bethlehem, a village thirty-five stadia from Jerusalem, 27. Christ born there, ib. in a cave, 171. Bishop, or president, his office in celebrating the Eucharist, 50, 51, 52. when the reader concludes, exhorts to the imitation of these excellent things, 52. the guardian and dispenser of the alms, ibid. INDEX. Calumnies, (see Christians,) hurt not the innocent, 21. but those who charge their own crimes upon others, ibid. a duty to refute them, 2, 3. Christians not anxious about them, having God as witness of their thoughts and actions, 67. Capparatæa, 20. Carians, mentioned as a despicable nation, 218. Carnutum, 54. Catechumens, the formula of their dismissal alluded to, 37. Ceremonial, Christian, offered with the voice, 9. Charity, of the Christians, 10. towards their persecutors, 44. wishes the same good for one's neighbour as for one's self, 190. all righteousness lies in love to God and one's neighbour, ibid. Christ's precepts about it, 11. Chastity, our Lord's teaching about it, 10. examples amongst Christians, 11. countless multitudes have laid aside licentiousness and learned this grace, ibid. an instance, 58. Children, employed in divination, 14. Christ, means anointed, 62. but contains an unknown signification, as does the name of God, ibid. the Son of the Very God, and second in order, 9. the Only-begotten of the Father, properly begotten by Him as His Word and Power, afterwards made man, 202. He claimed Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as His, 50. His name profaned by the Jews throughout the world, 215. and by some who call themselves Christians, 113. He worthy for His wisdom to be called the Son of God, but also begotten of God in a peculiar manner, 17. the First-begotten of God before all creatures, and the son of the patriarchs, 196. proceeded from the Father by His power and will, 247 ibid. the Word (or Reason) of Whom the whole human race are partakers, 35. His appearances in so many forms of old help us to believe His Incarnation, 167. the Jews would not have denied that He is God if they had understood the prophets, 227. that God should be born is matter of revelation, not of human doctrine or argument, 158, 129. let the Jews confess Him to be the Christ, whatever that Christ is to be, ibid. even if they deny His preexistence and Incarnation, and say He is a man of men and Christ by election, 129. as some Christians (?) did hold, 129, 130. with whom Justin would not agree even if they were the greatest number, ibid. known to Socrates and others in part, since He is the Word, Who is in every one, 66, 64, 65. seminal reason, 64, 68. the King of Glory, and the Lord of Hosts, 105, 115, 116. God and King of all the earth, 116. sitting above the cherubims, ibid. shewn to be Lord of Hosts from the ejection of devils by His name, 179. He alone properly the Son, 62. God and the Son of God, 229. Christians worship Him not without reason, 9. Christ prophesied of, His Incarnation, 151. that He is to be worshipped, and is God and Christ, 152. His various names in the Old Testament, 111, 196, 226. the prophecies of His divinity need not to be explained, only to be read, 138. Scripture speaks of Christ as about to suffer, and be worshipped, and as God, 169, 160. as the Jews admit, ibid. the Jews admit this of the Messiah, but say He is yet to come, ibid. "God gives not His glory to another" shewn by the context to mean "to no other than Christ," 154, 155. He the Angel Whom God commands to be worshipped, 190. He is called Jacob in parable, 115. Jacob and Israel, 237. Priest for ever, 110. various other titles, 111. the chosen Priest, and the eternal King, as being the Son of God, 216. the Star out of Jacob and the Branch out of the root of Jesse, 25. a star and the east, 203. the Spirit of God should rest upon Him, not that He would need those gifts, (for the Magi adored Him before, 184.) but that they would rest, i. e. cease, in Him, and resting in Him again become His gifts to His people, 182, 183. so His birth and crucifixion were for our sake, |