18. See V. Taylor, The Names of Jesus (London: Macmillan, 1953).
st. justin martyr 4. "And Christ changed the name of one of his disciples from Simon to Peter, when, enlightened by the Father, he recognized him to be Christ, the Son of God.16 And since we find it written in the Memoirs 17 of the apostles that he is the Son of God, and since we call him by that same title, we have understood that this is really he and that he proceeded before all creatures from the Father by his power and will (for in the prophetic writings he is called Wisdom, and Day, and the East, and Sword, Stone, Rod, Jacob, and Israel, in one respect or another);18 and that he is become incarnate of the Virgin, in order that the disobedience caused by the serpent might be destroyed in the same manner in which it had originated.
5. "For Eve, an undefiled virgin, conceived the word of the serpent, and brought forth disobedience and death.19 But the Virgin Mary,20 filled with faith and joy, when the angel Gabriel announced to her the good tidings that the Spirit of the Lord would come upon her, and the power of the Most High would overshadow her, and therefore, the holy one born of her would be the Son of God, answered, 'Be it done unto me in accordance with your word.' 21
6. "And, indeed, she gave birth to him, concerning whom we have shown so many passages of Scripture were written, and by whom God destroys both the serpent and those angels and men who have come to resemble the serpent but frees from death those who repent of their sins and believe in Christ.
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16. See Mt 16.15–18.
17. jEn toi'" ajpomnhmeuvmasin. Justin used this term apparently for what are now called the Gospels. See 1 Apol. 66.3: "their Memoirs, which are called
Gospels"; R. Heard, "The ajpomnhmeuvmata in Papias, Justin, and Irenaeus," NTS 1 (1954): 122–34; Barnard, 70–71 and 181 n 408; W. Schneemelcher, ed., New
Testament Apocrypha, trans. and ed. R. McL. Wilson, (Louisville, Ky.: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1991–92), 1.20–21; P. Vielhauer, Geschichte der urchristlichen Literatur (Berlin: de Gruyter, 1975), 767–70.
18. See V. Taylor, The Names of Jesus (London: Macmillan, 1953).
19. See Jas 1.15.
20. On Mary and Eve in Justin see J. Quasten (cited in new Introduction, n 11), 211–12; Fédou, 60–63.
21. See Lk 1.35, 38; Massaux, 92.
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