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Hortatory Address to the Greeks

St Justin Martyr, ANF 1

1. 1. Reasons for Addressing the Greeks
2. 2. The Poets are Unfit to Be Religious Teachers
3. 3. Opinions of the School of Thales
4. 4. Opinions of Pythagoras and Epicurus
5. 5. Opinions of Plato and Aristotle
6. 6. Further Disagreements Between Plato and Aristotle
7. 7. Inconsistencies of Plato’s Doctrine
8. 8. Antiquity, Inspiration, and Harmony of Christian Teachers
9. 9. The Antiquity of Moses Proved by Greek Writers
10. 10. Training and Inspiration of Moses
11. 11. Heathen Oracles Testify of Moses
12. 12. Antiquity of Moses Proved
13. 13. History of the Septuagint
14. 14. A Warning Appeal to the Greeks
15. 15. Testimony of Orpheus to Monotheism
16. 16. Testimony of the Sibyl
17. 17. Testimony of Homer
18. 18. Testimony of Sophocles
19. 19. Testimony of Pythagoras
20. 20. Testimony of Plato
21. 21. The Namelessness of God
22. 22. Studied Ambiguity Plato
23. 23. Plato’s Self-Contradiction
24. 24. Agreement of Plato and Homer
25. 25. Plato’s Knowledge of God’s Eternity
26. 26. Plato Indebted to the Prophets
27. 27. Plato’s Knowledge of the Judgement
28. 28. Homer’s Obligations to the Sacred Writers
29. 29. Origin of Plato’s Doctrine of Form
30. 30. Homer’s Knowledge of Man’s Origin
31. 31. Further Proof of Plato’s Acquaintance with Scripture
32. 32. Plato’s Doctrine of the Heavenly Gift
33. 33. Plato’s Idea of the Beginning of Time Drawn from Moses
34. 34. Whence Men Attributed to God Human Form
35. 35. Appeal to the Greeks
36. 36. True Knowledge Not Held by the Philosophers
37. 37. Of the Sibyl
38. 38. Concluding Appeal