Justin Martyr

Justin Martyr was an early Christian Church Father. The 2nd-century antisemitic text Dialogue with Trypho by Justin Martyr is a rhetorical format presented as a conversation between Justin and a Jew.

Quotes

 * “... For that circumcision, which you [Jews] received from Abraham, was given you for a sign, that you might be distinguished from other nations, and from us; and that you alone might suffer those things which ye now justly suffer; and that your country might be made desolate, your cities burnt with fire, and fruits devoured by strangers before your eyes, and that none of you might go up to Jerusalem. ...”, Justin Martyr, Dialogue with Trypho, Section XVI.


 * “... The foolish Jews reject him, ... and refuse to accept of Jesus as their Messias, ...”, Justin Martyr, Dialogue with Trypho, Section XXXVIII.


 * “... For truly your hand is still stretched out to do evil; for even though you [Jews] killed Christ, you do not repent ...”, Justin Martyr, Dialogue with Trypho, Section CXXXIII.