was insistent that perfection came through perfect wisdom, the question arose as to whether anyone could attain to such, or whether such wisdom was reserved only for God. Perhaps Justin noticed the skepticism underlying this view, and so he moved on to the school of Aristotle. Justin apparently had little influence from the Peripatetic school. When an Aristotelian philosopher asked him for a fee for the philosopher’s services, Justin left him, considering that he was no philosopher
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