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.But the children of the kingdomshall be cast out into outer darkness. Furthermore, I have proved in whathas preceded, that those who were foreknown to be unrighteous, whethermen or angels, are not made wicked by God s fault, but each man by hisown fault is what he will appear to be.CHAPTER 141FREE-WILL IN MEN AND ANGELS But that you may not have a pretext for saying that Christ must havebeen crucified, and that those who transgressed must have been amongyour nation, and that the matter could not have been otherwise, I saidbriefly by anticipation, that God, wishing men and angels to follow Hiswill, resolved to create them free to do righteousness; possessing reason,that they may know by whom they are created, and through whom they,not existing formerly, do now exist; and with a law that they should bejudged by Him, if they do anything contrary to right reason: and ofourselves we, men and angels, shall be convicted of having acted sinfully,unless we repent beforehand.But if the word of God foretells that someangels and men shall be certainly punished, it did so because it foreknewthat they would be unchangeably [wicked], but not because God hadcreated them so.So that if they repent, all who wish for it can obtainmercy from God: and the Scripture foretells that they shall be blessed,saying, Blessed is the man to whom the Lord imputeth not sin; that is,having repented of his sins, that he may receive remission of them fromGod; and not as you deceive yourselves, and some others who resembleyou in this, who say, that even though they be sinners, but know God, theLord will not impute sin to them.We have as proof of this the one fall ofDavid, which happened through his boasting, which was forgiven thenwhen he so mourned and wept, as it is written.But if even to such a manno remission was granted before repentance, and only when this great king,and anointed one, and prophet, mourned and conducted himself so, how 531can the impure and utterly abandoned, if they weep not, and mourn not,and repent not, entertain the hope that the Lord will not impute to themsin? And this one fall of David, in the matter of Uriah s wife, proves, sirs, I said, that the patriarchs had many wives, not to commit fornication, butthat a certain dispensation and all mysteries might be accomplished bythem; since, if it were allowable to take any wife, or as many wives as onechooses, and how he chooses, which the men of your nation do over all theearth, wherever they sojourn, or wherever they have been sent, takingwomen under the name of marriage, much more would David have beenpermitted to do this. When I had said this, dearest Marcus Pompeius, I came to an end.CHAPTER 142THE JEWS RETURN THANKS, AND LEAVE JUSTINThen Trypho, after a little delay, said, You see that it was notintentionally that we came to discuss these points.And I confess that Ihave been particularly pleased with the conference; and I think that theseare of quite the same opinion as myself.For we have found more than weexpected, and more than it was possible to have expected.And if we coulddo this more frequently, we should be much helped in the searching of theScriptures themselves.But since, he said, you are on the eve ofdeparture, and expect daily to set sail, do not hesitate to remember us asfriends when you are gone. For my part, I replied, if I had remained, I would have wished to do thesame thing daily.But now, since I expect, with God s will and aid, to setsail, I exhort you to give all diligence in this very great struggle for yourown salvation, and to be earnest in setting a higher value on the Christ ofthe Almighty God than on your own teachers. After this they left me, wishing me safety in my voyage, and from everymisfortune.And I, praying for them, said, I can wish no better thing foryou, sirs, than this, that, recognizing in this way that intelligence is givento every man, you may be of the same opinion as ourselves, and believethat Jesus is the Christ of God. 532THE DISCOURSETO THEGREEKS[TRANSLATED BY THE REV M.DODS, M.A.]CHAPTER 1JUSTIN JUSTIFIES HIS DEPARTUREFROM GREEK CUSTOMSDo not suppose, ye Greeks, that my separation from your customs isunreasonable and unthinking; for I found in them nothing that is holy oracceptable to God.For the very compositions of your poets aremonuments of madness and intemperance.For any one who becomes thescholar of your most eminent instructor, is more beset by difficulties thanall men besides.For first they say that Agamemnon, abetting theextravagant lust of his brother, and his madness and unrestrained desire,readily gave even his daughter to be sacrificed, and troubled all Greece thathe might rescue Helen, who had been ravished by the leprous shepherd.But when in the course of the war they took captives, Agamemnon washimself taken captive by Chryseis, and for Briseis sake kindled a feudwith the son of Thetis.And Pelides himself, who crossed the river,overthrew Troy, and subdued Hector, this your hero became the slave ofPolyxena, and was conquered by a dead Amazon; and putting off theGod-fabricated armor, and donning the hymeneal robe, he became asacrifice of love in the temple of Apollo.And the Ithacan Ulysses made avirtue of a vice.And indeed his sailing past the Sirens gave evidence that hewas destitute of worthy prudence, because he could not depend on hisprudence for stopping his ears.Ajax, son of Telamon, who bore the shieldof sevenfold ox-hide, went mad when he was defeated in the contest with 533Ulysses for the armor.Such things I have no desire to be instructed in.Ofsuch virtue I am not covetous, that I should believe the myths of Homer.For the whole rhapsody, the beginning and end both of the Iliad and theOdyssey is a woman.CHAPTER 2THE GREEK THEOGONY EXPOSEDBut since, next to Homer, Hesiod wrote his Works and Days, who willbelieve his drivelling theogony? For they say that Chronos, the son ofOuranos, in the beginning slew his father, and possessed himself of hisrule; and that, being seized with a panic lest he should himself suffer in thesame way, he preferred devouring his children; but that, by the craft of theCuretes, Jupiter was conveyed away and kept in secret, and afterwardsbound his father with chains, and divided the empire; Jupiter receiving, asthe story goes, the air, and Neptune the deep, and Pluto the portion ofHades.But Pluto ravished Proserpine; and Ceres sought her childwandering through the deserts.And this myth was celebrated in theEleusinian fire.Again, Neptune ravished Melanippe when she was drawingwater, besides abusing a host of Nereids not a few, whose names, were weto recount them, would cost us a multitude of words [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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.But the children of the kingdomshall be cast out into outer darkness. Furthermore, I have proved in whathas preceded, that those who were foreknown to be unrighteous, whethermen or angels, are not made wicked by God s fault, but each man by hisown fault is what he will appear to be.CHAPTER 141FREE-WILL IN MEN AND ANGELS But that you may not have a pretext for saying that Christ must havebeen crucified, and that those who transgressed must have been amongyour nation, and that the matter could not have been otherwise, I saidbriefly by anticipation, that God, wishing men and angels to follow Hiswill, resolved to create them free to do righteousness; possessing reason,that they may know by whom they are created, and through whom they,not existing formerly, do now exist; and with a law that they should bejudged by Him, if they do anything contrary to right reason: and ofourselves we, men and angels, shall be convicted of having acted sinfully,unless we repent beforehand.But if the word of God foretells that someangels and men shall be certainly punished, it did so because it foreknewthat they would be unchangeably [wicked], but not because God hadcreated them so.So that if they repent, all who wish for it can obtainmercy from God: and the Scripture foretells that they shall be blessed,saying, Blessed is the man to whom the Lord imputeth not sin; that is,having repented of his sins, that he may receive remission of them fromGod; and not as you deceive yourselves, and some others who resembleyou in this, who say, that even though they be sinners, but know God, theLord will not impute sin to them.We have as proof of this the one fall ofDavid, which happened through his boasting, which was forgiven thenwhen he so mourned and wept, as it is written.But if even to such a manno remission was granted before repentance, and only when this great king,and anointed one, and prophet, mourned and conducted himself so, how 531can the impure and utterly abandoned, if they weep not, and mourn not,and repent not, entertain the hope that the Lord will not impute to themsin? And this one fall of David, in the matter of Uriah s wife, proves, sirs, I said, that the patriarchs had many wives, not to commit fornication, butthat a certain dispensation and all mysteries might be accomplished bythem; since, if it were allowable to take any wife, or as many wives as onechooses, and how he chooses, which the men of your nation do over all theearth, wherever they sojourn, or wherever they have been sent, takingwomen under the name of marriage, much more would David have beenpermitted to do this. When I had said this, dearest Marcus Pompeius, I came to an end.CHAPTER 142THE JEWS RETURN THANKS, AND LEAVE JUSTINThen Trypho, after a little delay, said, You see that it was notintentionally that we came to discuss these points.And I confess that Ihave been particularly pleased with the conference; and I think that theseare of quite the same opinion as myself.For we have found more than weexpected, and more than it was possible to have expected.And if we coulddo this more frequently, we should be much helped in the searching of theScriptures themselves.But since, he said, you are on the eve ofdeparture, and expect daily to set sail, do not hesitate to remember us asfriends when you are gone. For my part, I replied, if I had remained, I would have wished to do thesame thing daily.But now, since I expect, with God s will and aid, to setsail, I exhort you to give all diligence in this very great struggle for yourown salvation, and to be earnest in setting a higher value on the Christ ofthe Almighty God than on your own teachers. After this they left me, wishing me safety in my voyage, and from everymisfortune.And I, praying for them, said, I can wish no better thing foryou, sirs, than this, that, recognizing in this way that intelligence is givento every man, you may be of the same opinion as ourselves, and believethat Jesus is the Christ of God. 532THE DISCOURSETO THEGREEKS[TRANSLATED BY THE REV M.DODS, M.A.]CHAPTER 1JUSTIN JUSTIFIES HIS DEPARTUREFROM GREEK CUSTOMSDo not suppose, ye Greeks, that my separation from your customs isunreasonable and unthinking; for I found in them nothing that is holy oracceptable to God.For the very compositions of your poets aremonuments of madness and intemperance.For any one who becomes thescholar of your most eminent instructor, is more beset by difficulties thanall men besides.For first they say that Agamemnon, abetting theextravagant lust of his brother, and his madness and unrestrained desire,readily gave even his daughter to be sacrificed, and troubled all Greece thathe might rescue Helen, who had been ravished by the leprous shepherd.But when in the course of the war they took captives, Agamemnon washimself taken captive by Chryseis, and for Briseis sake kindled a feudwith the son of Thetis.And Pelides himself, who crossed the river,overthrew Troy, and subdued Hector, this your hero became the slave ofPolyxena, and was conquered by a dead Amazon; and putting off theGod-fabricated armor, and donning the hymeneal robe, he became asacrifice of love in the temple of Apollo.And the Ithacan Ulysses made avirtue of a vice.And indeed his sailing past the Sirens gave evidence that hewas destitute of worthy prudence, because he could not depend on hisprudence for stopping his ears.Ajax, son of Telamon, who bore the shieldof sevenfold ox-hide, went mad when he was defeated in the contest with 533Ulysses for the armor.Such things I have no desire to be instructed in.Ofsuch virtue I am not covetous, that I should believe the myths of Homer.For the whole rhapsody, the beginning and end both of the Iliad and theOdyssey is a woman.CHAPTER 2THE GREEK THEOGONY EXPOSEDBut since, next to Homer, Hesiod wrote his Works and Days, who willbelieve his drivelling theogony? For they say that Chronos, the son ofOuranos, in the beginning slew his father, and possessed himself of hisrule; and that, being seized with a panic lest he should himself suffer in thesame way, he preferred devouring his children; but that, by the craft of theCuretes, Jupiter was conveyed away and kept in secret, and afterwardsbound his father with chains, and divided the empire; Jupiter receiving, asthe story goes, the air, and Neptune the deep, and Pluto the portion ofHades.But Pluto ravished Proserpine; and Ceres sought her childwandering through the deserts.And this myth was celebrated in theEleusinian fire.Again, Neptune ravished Melanippe when she was drawingwater, besides abusing a host of Nereids not a few, whose names, were weto recount them, would cost us a multitude of words [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]