Jerome. Lives of Illustrious Men 23
23 Justin the philosopher PL 23, 641
Justin, a philosopher, and wearing the garb of philosopher, a citizen of Neapolis, a city of Palestine, and the son of Priscus Bacchius, laboured strenuously in behalf of the religion of Christ, insomuch that he delivered to Antoninus Pius and his sons and the senate, a work written Against the nations, and did not shun the ignominy of the cross. He addressed another book also to the successors of this Antoninus, Marcus Antoninus Verus and Lucius Aurelius Commodus. Another volume of his Against the nations, is also extant, where he discusses the nature of demons, and a fourth against the nations which he entitled, Refutation and yet another On the sovereignty of God, and another book which he entitled, Psaltes, and another On the Soul, the Dialogue against the Jews, which he held against Trypho, the leader of the Jews, and also notable volumes Against Marcion, which Irenæus also mentions in the fourth book Against heresies, also another book Against all heresies which he mentions in the Apology which is addressed to Antoninus Pius. He, when he had held διατριβάς in the city of Rome, and had convicted Crescens the cynic, who said many blasphemous things against the Christians, of gluttony and fear of death, and had proved him devoted to luxury and lusts, at last, accused of being a Christian, through the efforts and wiles of Crescens, he shed his blood for Christ.
Justinus philosophus, habitu quoque philosophorum incedens, de Neapoli urbe Palaestinae, patre Prisco Bacchio pro religione Christi plurimum laboravit: in tantum, ut Antonino 865 quoque Pio, et filiis ejus, et Senatui librum ( Apologia longior ) contra Gentes scriptum daret, ignominiamque Crucis non erubesceret: et alium librum ( Altera brevior ) successoribus ejusdem Antonini, M. Antonino Vero, et L. Aurelio Commodo. Exstat ejus et aliud volumen ( Oratio ad Graecos ) contra Gentes, ubi de daemonum quoque natura disputat: et quartum adversus Gentes, cui titulum praenotavit ἔλεγχος: sed et alius de Monarchia Dei, et alius liber, quem praenotavit Psalten, et alius de anima. Dialogus contra Judaeos, quem habuit adversus Tryphonem principem Judaeorum: sed et contra Marcionem insignia volumina, quorum Irenaeus quoque in quarto adversus haereses libro meminit; et alius liber contra omnes haereses, cujus facit mentionem in Apologetico, quem dedit Antonino Pio. Hic cum in urbe Roma haberet διατριβάς, et Crescentem Cynicum, qui multa adversum Christianos blasphemabat, redarguere gulosum, et mortis timidum, luxuriaeque et libidinum sectatorem, ad extremum studio ejus et insidiis accusatus, quod Christianus esset, pro Christo sanguinem fudit.
Ἰουστῖνος φιλόσοφος, καὶ τῷ σχήματι τῶν φιλοσόφων χρώμενος, ἀπὸ τῆς Νεαπολιτῶν ἐπαρχίας Παλαιστίνης, ἐκ πατρὸς Πρίσκου Βακχείου, ὐπὲρ τῆς θρησκείας τῶν χριστιανῶν πάνυ ἐκοπίασεν, ὥστε καὶ Ἀντωνίνῳ 866 τῷ ἐπίκλην Πίῳ, καὶ τοῖς τούτου υἰεῦσι, καὶ τῇ συγκλὴτῳ βίβλον κατὰ τῶν ἐθνῶν συνταγεῖσαν ἐπιδοῦναι, τὸν ὀνειδισμὸν τοῦ σταυροῦ μὴ αἰσχυνόμενος, καὶ ἄλλην βίβλον τοῖς τοῦ αὐτοῦ Ἀντωνίνου διαδόχοις, τουτέστι Μάρκῳ Ἀντωνίνῳ Βήρῳ, καὶ Λουκίῳ, Αὐρηλίῳ Κομόδῳ. Ἔστι καὶ ἄλλη αὐτοῦ βίβλος κατὰ τῶν ἐθνῶν, ἐν ᾗ περὶ τῆς φύσεως τῶν δαιμόνων διαλέγεται, καὶ τέταρτον λόγον ὁμοίως κατὰ τῶν ἐθνῶν, ὃν ἐπέγραψεν Ἐλεγχος, καὶ ἄλλον περὶ τῆς τοῦ Θεοῦ μοναρχίας, καὶ ἀλλον ὠνόμασε Ψάλτην, καὶ ἕτερον περὶ τῆς ψυχῆς. Διάλογον κατὰ τῶν Ἰουδαίων, ὃν ἔχει κατὰ Τρύφωνος ἀρχηγοῦ τῶν Ἰουδαίων. Οὐ μὴν ἀλλὰ καὶ κατὰ Μαρκίωνος ἐπίσημα τεύχη, ὧντινων Εἰρηναῖος ἐν τῷ πέμπτω λόγῳ τῷ κατὰ τῶν αἱρετικῶν μέμνηται. Καὶ ἄλλη βίβλος κατὰ πασῶν τῶν αἱρέσεων, ἧς μέμνηται ἐν τῷ ἀπολογητικῷ, ὃν ἔδωκεν Ἀντωνίνῳ τῷ Πίῳ. Οὗτος ἐν τῇ Ῥώμῃ ἔχων τὰς διατριβὰς, εὐθύνων Κρήσκην ( F. leg. Κρήσκεντα) τὸν Κυνικὸν, τὸν κατὰ τῶν χριστιανῶν βλασφημοῦντα, καὶ καλῶν αὐτὸν λαίμαργον, καὶ τὸν θάνατον φοβούμενον, ἄσωτόντε καὶ ἀκόλαστον, τέλος τῇ τοῦτου ἐνεργείᾳ καὶ ἐπιβουλῇ, ὡς χριστιανὸς ὑπὲρ τοῦ Χριστοῦ ἔπαθεν.