Historicity of Jesus - 2

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Jove and Justin Martyr.

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“It having reached the Devil’s ears,”says the devout Father Justin Martyr, “that the prophets had foretold the coming of Christ, the Son of God, he set the heathen Poets to bring forward a great many who should be called the sons of Jove. <b>The Devil laying his scheme in this, to get men to imagine that, the true history of Christ was of the same character as the prodigious fables related of the sons of Jove.” </b>(I Apology, ch. 54; INF. i, 181-182.)<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->