24. On Justin's archaizing use of the phrase oJ divkaio", see Barnard, 160 n
st. justin martyr believe that any of you will attempt to deny that God either had or has foreknowledge of future events, and that he does not prepare beforehand what everyone deserves. Therefore, the above-mentioned tribulations were justly imposed upon you.
4. "For you have murdered the Just One,24 and his prophets before him; now you spurn those who hope in him, and in him who sent him, namely, almighty God, the Creator of all things; to the utmost of your power you dishonor and curse in your synagogues all those who believe in Christ.25 Now, indeed, you cannot use violence against us Christians, because of those who are in power, but as often as you could, you did employ force against us. For this reason, God cries out to you through Isaiah, saying, Behold, how the Just One perishes, and no one takes it to heart.
For the Just One is taken away from before the face of evil. His burial shall be in peace, he is taken away from among us. But draw near hither, you wicked sons, seed of the adulterers and children of the harlot.
Upon whom have you jested, and upon whom have you opened your mouth wide, and put out your tongue? 26 c h a p t e r 17 "The other nations have not treated Christ and us, his followers, as unjustly as you Jews have, who, indeed, are the very instigators of that evil opinion they have of the Just One and of us, his disciples. After you had crucified the only sinless and just
Man (through whose sufferings are healed all those who approach the Father through him), and after you realized that he had risen from the dead and had ascended into heaven (as had been predicted by the prophets), you not only failed to feel remorse for your evil deed, but you even dispatched certain
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24. On Justin's archaizing use of the phrase oJ divkaio", see Barnard, 160 n 303.
25. That it was a Jewish custom solemnly to curse the Christians thrice a day is alleged by St. Epiphanius (Panarion 1.9) and St. Jerome (Commentary on Isaiah
52.5). See W. Horbury, "The Benediction of the Minim and Jewish-Christian Controversy," JThS, n.s. 33 (1982): 19–61; Judith Lieu, "Accusations of Jewish
Persecution in Early Christian Sources, with Particular Reference to Justin Martyr and the Martyrdom of Polycarp," in Tolerance and Intolerance in Early Judaism and Christianity, edited by Graham N. Stanton and Gedaliahu Stroumsa (New
York: Cambridge University Press, 1998), 279–95.
26. Is 57.1–4. See Skarsaune, 31.
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