Justin Martyr

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

Quotes

 * “... [God's] new holy covenant you [Jews] have slighted; and now you neither receive it, nor repent of your evil deeds. For your ears are closed, your eyes are blinded, and the heart is hardened, Jeremiah has cried; yet not even then do you listen. The Lawgiver is present, yet you do not see him; to the poor the Gospel is preached, the blind see, yet you do not understand. ...”, Justin Martyr, Dialogue with Trypho, Section XII.


 * “... 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 you 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. ... Accordingly, these things have happened to you in fairness and justice, for you have slain the Just One, and his prophets before him; and now you reject those who hope in him, and in him who sent him—God the Almighty and Maker of all things—cursing in your synagogues those that believe in Christ. ...”, Justin Martyr, Dialogue with Trypho, Section XVI.


 * “... For other nations have not inflicted on us and on Christ this wrong to such an extent as you [Jews] have, who in very deed are the authors of the wicked prejudice against the Just One, and us who hold by him. For after that you had crucified him, the only blameless and righteous Man ...”, Justin Martyr, Dialogue with Trypho, Section XVII.


 * “... circumcision of the flesh, your Sabbath days, and in a word, all your festivals ... were imposed upon you, namely, because of your sins and the hardness of heart. ...”, Justin Martyr, Dialogue with Trypho, Section XVII.


 * “... 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.