Corpus-Paul

["John Brand" <jbrand AT gvsd.mb.ca>]

Date sent:              Thu, 20 Jan 2005 16:34:43 -0600
From:                   "Jeffrey B. Gibson" <jgibson000 AT comcast.net>
To:                     Corpus-Paul <corpus-paul AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject:                Re: [Corpus-Paul] similarities


> 
> 
> John Brand wrote:
> 
> > Let's meet on more specific grounds and apart from terminology. I am
> > open to correction. Why not consider the context of Romans 1-2 and
> > look at similarities between what he is addressing in these chapters
> > and what we find in Cicero's "Laws"
> 
> I note than none of them show that there is a link in Paul between
> Christos and Logos.

John responds:
The affintity between Christ and Logos for Romans is to be found IMO 
through the eyes of Justin Martyr whom I quoted in an earlier post:

". . .We have been taught that Christ is the first-born of God. And 
we have declared above that he is the Word [Logos] of whom every race 
of men are partakers and those who lived reasonably are Christians 
even though they have been thought to be atheists as among the 
Greeks, Socrates and Heraclitus, and men like them." (First 
Apology,18)

Do we have any reason to refute the connection that Justin Martyr is 
making?

John