{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/001/0010582.htm","path":"chr/ecf/001/0010582.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/001/0010582.htm","text":"And as they kept silence, I went on: \u201c[The Scripture], speaking by David about this Christ, my friends, said no longer that \u2018in His seed\u2019 the nations should be blessed, but \u2018in Him.\u2019 So it is here: \u2018His name shall rise up for ever above the sun; and in Him shall all nations be blessed.\u2019 2412 But if all nations are blessed in Christ, and we of all nations believe in Him, then He is indeed the Christ, and we are those blessed by Him. God formerly gave the sun as an object of worship, 2413 as it is written, but no one ever was seen to endure death on account of his faith in the sun; but for the name of Jesus you may see men of every nation who have endured and do endure all sufferings, rather than deny Him. For the word of His truth and wisdom is more ardent and more light-giving than the rays of the sun, and sinks down into the depths of heart and mind. Hence also the Scripture said, \u2018His name shall rise up above the sun.\u2019 And again, Zechariah says, \u2018His name is the East.\u2019 2414 And speaking of the same, he says that \u2018each tribe shall mourn.\u2019 2415 But if He so shone forth and was so mighty in His first advent (which was without honour and comeliness, and very contemptible), that in no nation He is unknown, and everywhere men have repented of the old wickedness in each nation\u2019s way of living, so that even demons were subject to His name, and all powers and kingdoms feared His name more than they feared all the dead, shall He not on His glorious advent destroy by all means all those who hated Him, and who unrighteously departed from Him, but give rest to His own, rewarding them with all they have looked for? To us, therefore, it has been granted to hear, and to understand, and to be saved by this Christ, and to recognise all the [truths revealed] by the Father. Wherefore He said to Him: \u2018It is a great thing for Thee to be called my servant, to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and turn again the dispersed of Israel. I have appointed Thee for a light to the Gentiles, that Thou mayest be their salvation unto the end of the earth.\u2019 2416\nSo Justin concludes from Deut. iv. 19; comp. chap. lv. [The explanation is not very difficult (see Rom. i. 28), but the language of Justin is unguarded.]\n260:2414 260:2415 260:2416","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol I: JUSTIN MARTYR: Chapter CXXI.\u2014From the fact that the...","type":"page"}