Editing Justin Martyr (section)

===''On the Resurrection''===
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The treatise ''On the Resurrection'' exists in extensive fragments that are preserved in the ''Sacra parallela''. The fragments begin with the assertion that the truth, and God the author of truth, need no witness, but that as a concession to the weakness of men it is necessary to give arguments to convince those who gainsay it. It is then shown, after a denial of unfounded deductions, that the resurrection of the body is neither impossible nor unworthy of God, and that the evidence of prophecy is not lacking for it. Another fragment takes up the positive proof of the resurrection, adducing that of Christ and of those whom he recalled to life. In yet another fragment the resurrection is shown to be that of what has gone down, i.e., the body; the knowledge concerning it is the new doctrine, in contrast to that of the old philosophers. The doctrine [[Logical consequence|follows from]] the command to keep the body in moral purity.

The authenticity of the treatise is not so generally accepted as are Justin's other works.<ref>Philippe Bobichon, [https://www.academia.edu/7279808/_Justin_Martyr_%C3%A9tude_stylistique_du_Dialogue_avec_Tryphon_suivie_d_une_comparaison_avec_l_Apologie_et_le_De_resurrectione_Recherches_augustiniennes_et_patristiques_34_2005_pp_1_61 "Justin Martyr : étude stylistique du Dialogue avec Tryphon suivie d’une comparaison avec l’Apologie et le De resurrectione"], ''Recherches augustiniennes et patristiques'' 34 (2005), pp. 1-61.</ref> Even so, earlier than the ''Sacra parallela'', it is referred to by Procopius of Gaza (c. 465–528).  Methodius appeals to Justin in support of his interpretation of [[First Epistle to the Corinthians|1 Corinthians]] 15:50 in a way that makes it natural to assume the existence of a treatise on the subject, to say nothing of other traces of a connection in thought both here in Irenaeus (V., ii.-xiii. 5) and in Tertullian, where it is too close to be anything but a conscious following of the Greek. The ''Against Marcion'' is lost, as is the ''Refutation of all Heresies'' to which Justin himself refers in ''Apology'', i. 26; [[Hegesippus (chronicler)|Hegesippus]], besides perhaps Irenaeus and Tertullian, seems to have used it.