{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/001/0010692.htm","path":"chr/ecf/001/0010692.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/001/0010692.htm","text":"The prefect says to Justin, \u201cHearken, you who are called learned, and think that you know true doctrines; if you are scourged and beheaded, do you believe you will ascend into heaven?\u201d Justin said, \u201cI hope that, if I endure these things, I shall have His gifts. 2646 For I know that, to all who have thus lived, there abides the divine favour until the completion of the whole world.\u201d Rusticus the prefect said, \u201cDo you suppose, then, that you will ascend into heaven to receive some recompense?\u201d Justin said, \u201cI do not suppose it, but I know and am fully persuaded of it.\u201d Rusticus the prefect said, \u201cLet us, then, now come to the matter in hand, and which presses. Having come together, offer sacrifice with one accord to the gods.\u201d Justin said, \u201cNo right-thinking person falls away from piety to impiety.\u201d Rusticus the prefect said, \u201cUnless ye obey, ye shall be mercilessly punished.\u201d Justin said, \u201cThrough prayer we can be saved on account of our Lord Jesus Christ, even when we have been punished, 2647 because this shall become to us salvation and confidence at the more fearful and universal judgment-seat of our Lord and Saviour.\u201d Thus also said the other martyrs: \u201cDo what you will, for we are Christians, and do not sacrifice to idols.\u201d\nAnother reading is \u03b4\u03cc\u03b3\u03bc\u03b1\u03c4\u03b1, which may be translated, \u201cI shall have what He teaches [us to expect].\u201d\n306:2647\nThis passage admits of another rendering. Lord Hailes, following the common Latin version, thus translates: \u201cIt was our chief wish to endure tortures for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ, and so to be saved.\u201d","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol I: JUSTIN MARTYR: Chapter IV....","type":"page"}