Justin Martyr: Second Apology

Literally, “both yesterday and the day before.”

[See Grabe’s note on the conjecture of Valesius that this prefect was Lollius Urbicus, the historian (vol. i. p. 1. and notes, p. 1).]

[He has addressed them as “Romans,” because in this they gloried together,—emperor, senate, soldiers, and citizens.]

ἀκολασταίνοντι , which word includes unchastity, as well as the other forms of intemperance. [As we say, dissolute.]

ῥεπούδιον , i.e., “repudium,” a bill of repudiation.

[Rather, “to thee, autocrat:” a very bold apostrophe, like that of Huss to the Emperor Sigismund, which crimsoned his forehead with a blush of shame.]

i.e., Ptolemæus.

On this passage, see Donaldson’s Critical History , etc., vol. ii. p. 79.

Words resembling “philosopher” in sound, viz. φιλοψόφου καὶ φιλοκόμπου . [This passage is found elsewhere. See note, cap. viii., in the text preferred by Grabe.]

φιλόδοξος , which may mean a lover of vainglory.

See Plato, Rep. , p. 595.

This is Dr. Donaldson’s rendering of a clause on which the editors differ both as to reading and rendering.

Literally, “becoming ( γινόμενον ) both through the parts and through the whole in every wickedness.”

[Here, in Grabe’s text, comes in the passage about Crescens.]

These words can be taken of the Logos as well as of the right reason diffused among men by Him.

Plato, Rep. , x. c. i. p. 595.

Plat., Timæus , p. 28, C. (but “possible,” and not “safe,” is the word used by Plato).

[Certainly the author of this chapter, and others like it, cannot be accused of a feeble rhetoric.]

Another reading is πρὸς τὰς ὄψεις , referring to the eyes of the beholder; and which may be rendered, “speedily fascinating to the sight.”

Καὶ φευκτοῦ θανάτου may also be rendered, “even of death which men flee from. ”

Alluding to the common accusation against the Christians.

Literally, “with a tragic voice,”—the loud voice in which the Greek tragedies were recited through the mask [persona] .

The word disseminated among men. [St. Jas. i. 21 .]

Literally, dimly seen at a distance.

[Simon Magus appears to be one with whom Justin is perfectly familiar, and hence we are not to conclude rashly that he blundered as to the divine honours rendered to him as the Sabine God.]

[Another apostrophe, and a home thrust for “Pius the philosopher” and the emperor.]