Hortatory Address to the Greeks

by Justin Martyr

Chapters

1. Chapter 1: Reasons for Speaking to the Greeks.

2. Chapter II—The poets are unfit to be religious teachers.

3. Chapter 3: Opinions of Thales' School.

4. Chapter 4: Views of Pythagoras and Epicurus.

5. Chapter 5: The Views of Plato and Aristotle.

6. Chapter 6: More Disagreements Between Plato and Aristotle.

7. Chapter 7: Inconsistencies in Plato's Theory.

8. Chapter 8: The Age, Inspiration, and Harmony of Christian Educators.

9. Chapter 9: The Age of Moses Proven by Greek Authors

10. Chapter 10 - The Training and Inspiration of Moses.

11. Chapter 11: Pagan Oracles Speak of Moses.

12. Chapter 12: Proving the Ancient Existence of Moses

13. Chapter 13: History of the Septuagint.

14. Chapter 14: A Cautionary Appeal to the Greeks.

15. Chapter 15: Orpheus' Evidence of Monotheism.

16. Chapter 16: Testimony of the Prophetess.

17. Chapter 17: Homer's Testimony

18. Chapter 18: The Testimony of Sophocles.

19. Chapter 19: The Testimony of Pythagoras.

20. Chapter 20: Plato's Testimony

21. Chapter 21: The Unnamed God

22. Chapter 22: Analyzing Plato's Deliberate Ambiguity.

23. Chapter 23: Plato's Self-Contradiction

24. Chapter 24: The Agreement between Plato and Homer.

25. Chapter 25: Plato's Understanding of God's Eternity.

26. Chapter 26: Plato's Debt to the Prophets

27. Chapter 27: Plato's Understanding of Judgment

28. Chapter 28: Homer's Debts to the Sacred Authors.

29. Chapter 29: The Origin of Plato's Theory of Forms

30. Chapter 30: Homer's Understanding of Human Origin.

31. Chapter 31: Further Evidence of Plato's Knowledge of Scripture

32. Chapter 32: Plato's Theory of the Divine Gift.

33. Chapter 33: Plato's Concept of the Start of Time, Influenced by Moses.

34. Chapter 34: Why People Attribute Human Form to God

35. Chapter 35: Appeal to the Greeks.

36. Chapter 36: True Knowledge is Not Possessed by Philosophers.

37. Chapter 37: About the Prophetess.

38. Chapter 38: Final Appeal.

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Chapter 31: Further Evidence of Plato's Knowledge of Scripture

FROM WHAT OTHER SOURCE: if not from reading the writings of the prophets, could Plato have gotten the information he gives us, that Jupiter drives a winged chariot in heaven? He knew this from the prophet's words about the cherubim: “And the glory of the Lord went out from the house and rested on the cherubim; and the cherubim lifted their wings, with the wheels beside them; and the glory of the Lord God of Israel was above them.” Borrowing this idea, the eloquent Plato confidently declares, “The great Jove, indeed, driving his winged chariot in heaven.” From what other source, if not from Moses and the prophets, did he learn and write this? And where did he get the idea to say that God exists in a fiery substance? Was it not from the third book of the Kings, where it is written, “The Lord was not in the wind; and after the wind an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake; and after the earthquake a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire; and after the fire a still small voice?” Pious people must understand these things with deeper and meditative insight. But Plato, not looking at the words with the right insight, said that God exists in a fiery substance.