Aldus de kerkvaders Augustinus en Justinus:
Augustinus schreef:
want de zaak zelf die nu christelijke religie heet, bestond reeds bij de Ouden en is er sinds het begin van het menselijk geslacht altijd geweest. Totdat Christus zelf in het vlees kwam. Toen begon men de ware religie, die reeds bestond, christelijk te noemen.
(Augustinus 354-430)
Justinus schreef:
Chapter 46. The Word in the world before Christ
But lest some should, without reason, and for the perversion of what we teach, maintain that we say that Christ was born one hundred and fifty years ago under Cyrenius, and subsequently, in the time of Pontius Pilate, taught what we say He taught; and should cry out against us as though all men who were born before Him were irresponsible — let us anticipate and solve the difficulty. We have been taught that Christ is the first-born of God, and we have declared above that He is the Word of whom every race of men were partakers; and those who lived reasonably are Christians, even though they have been thought atheists; as, among the Greeks, Socrates and Heraclitus, and men like them; and among the barbarians, Abraham, and Ananias, and Azarias, and Misael, and Elias, and many others whose actions and names we now decline to recount
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