Works attributed to Justin
APPENDIX I
WORKS ATTRIBUTED TO JUSTIN
Justin Marryris one of the outstanding figures of the secondcentury Church and it is only to be expected that many later writings of unknown authorship and also forgeries would be ascribed to him. This Pseudo-Fustinian corpus of writings includes the following:
(a) Address to the Greeks.
(b) Hortatory Address to the Greeks.
(c) On the Unity of God.
(d) A Fragment on the Resurrection.
(ec) Exposition of the True Faith.
(f) Letter to Zenas and Serenus.
) Refutation of certain Aristotelian Doctrines.
) Questions and Answers to the Orthodox.
) Christian Questions asked to the Greeks. g h
The arguments against accepting any of the above works as genuine productions of Justin are overwhelming and have been conclusively stated by Harnack, Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur, 1, 99-114. The Expositio Rectae Fidei has now been proved to be the work of Theodoret. See J. Lebon, R.H.E. xxvi (1930),
536-50, and R. V. Sellers, 7.7.8. xLv1 (1945), 145-50.
-Justin's own literary activity undoubtedly extended beyond the two Apologies and the Dialogue with Trypho. He refers in I Apol. xxvi to a treatise against all the heresies, and Irenaeus, adv. Haer. 1v. 6, mentions a treatise of Justin against Marcion.
Eusebius, H.E. tv. 18, says that Justin, in addition to the two Apologies and the Dialogue, wrote an Address to the Greeks, treatises on the Unity of God and on the Soul, a work called
Psaltes (apparently a Psalter or Hymn Book) of which we know nothing. Photius, Bibl. cod. 125, 95, adds to these a work on Nature and a general Refutation of the arguments against Christianity. There are four small fragments, almost certainly genuine, preserved in later writers. See further R. M. Grant in Biblical and Patristic Studies in memory of R. P. Casey (Freiburg,
1963), pp. 182-8.
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