mid-second-century Dialogue with Trypho had, long before Epiphanius, indicated that there were two groups of Jewish Christians in Palestine, one of which tried to make Gentile converts keep the law, the other which did not; one of which did not accept a divine status of Jesus, and one of which did, and which Justin claims were just like himself (as a Christian) except for their continued observance of matters of the Jewish law.26 His term of division, we can notice, is again a christological one;