God called Abraham and commanded him to go out from the country where he was living. With this … - Justin Martyr

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Justin Martyr

God called Abraham and commanded him to go out from the country where he was living. With this call God has roused us all, and now we have left the state. We have renounced all the things the world offers. . . . The gods of the nations are demons.

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We used to hate and destroy one another and refused to associate with people of another race or country. Now, because of Christ, we live together with such people and pray for our enemies.

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Let it be understood that those who are not found living as He taught are not Christian- even though they profess with the lips the teaching of Christ.

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The world suffers nothing from Christians but hates them because they reject its pleasures.

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We ourselves were well conversant with war, murder and everything evil, but all of us throughout the whole wide earth have traded in our weapons of war. We have exchanged our swords for plowshares, our spears for farm tools. . . now we cultivate the fear of God, justice, kindness, faith, and the expectation of the future given us through the Crucified One. . . . The more we are persecuted and martyred, the more do others in ever increasing numbers become believers.

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By examining the tongue of the patient, physicians find out the diseases of the body, and philosophers the diseases of the mind.

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