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Outside the New Testament, our earliest complete witness to Christian apologetic against the Jews remains the Dialogue with Trypho, written by Justin Martyr, a convert to Christianity from traditional Greek religion. The Dialogue purports to be a two-day dialogue that took place in Asia Minor between Justin and Trypho, a Hellenized Jew. Justin argues extensively on the basis of lengthy Old...

“Now, if you look around, you can see among us Christians both male and female endowed with charisms from the Spirit of God. Thus, it was not because he needed the powers enumerated by Isaiah that it was foretold that they would come upon him, but only because they would not exist any more afterwards. As additional proof, remember what I said about the Magi of Arabia, how they came as soon as the child was born, and worshipped him. 2. “For, as soon as he was born, he possessed his powers,

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