The central theme of Justin is the creative and salvific plan of God, ἡ οἰκονομία, manifested and completed by the Christ-Logos: the wisdom of the ancients finds its place within this divine plan (Bourgeois). His basic premise is that human reason (λόγος) is a participation in the Word (Λόγος): in every person there is a “seed [σπέρμα] of the Logos” resulting from the action of the “Word which gives the seed [σπερματικὸς Λόγος]” (2 Apol. 7,3: 13,3). Justin turned to this Stoic-Platonic notion