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Quotation from The First Apology by Justin Martyr
“those who lived reasonably are Christians, even though they have been thought atheists; as, among the Greeks, Socrates and Heraclitus, and men like them”
The First Apology, Chapter XLVI.--The Word in the world before Christ., trans. Marcus Dods and George Reith (1867)
Chapter 46, answering the objection that people born before Christ cannot be blamed; everyone who lived by the Word (reason) shared in him.
Citation: "those who lived reasonably are Christians, even though they have been thought atheists; as, among the Greeks, Socrates and Heraclitus, and men like them" — Justin Martyr, The First Apology, Chapter XLVI.--The Word in the world before Christ., trans. Marcus Dods and George Reith (1867). (id justin-martyr-first-apology-q2)
