JUSTIN MARTYR

Justin Martyr



Justin Martyr

Thesis Statement

It is still an open question whether Justin Martyr wrote two Apologies or only one, and whether the two Apologies which have come down to people under his name in no more than two manuscripts, one the Parisinus Regius 450, the other a Claromontanus, which is only a copy of the first, are composed of the fragments of the one (or two) which he wrote. The evidence is, indeed, at first sight rather bewildering. On the one hand, people have the testimony of Eusebius, who refers in his Ecclesiastical History two Apologies, and gives ample quotations ...