Re: The Early Christians: Creed, Confession and Scripture

Megan R. wrote:

> However, when you find the words of the prophets put into the mouth of
> a person, you must not consider them as spoken by Spirit-filled
> persons, but by the divine Word [Logos] moving in them. Sometimes he
> proclaims the future events in the manner of a prediction, sometimes
> he speaks in the person of God the Lord and the Father of all things,
> sometimes in the person of Christ, and at other times from the mouth
> of the peoples themselves, replying to the Lord or to his father.
> 
> Justin, First Apology 36.
> 

When the prophetic Spirit speaks in the person of Christ, this is what he 
says: "I stretched out my hands to a disobedient and contradicting people,

to those who walk in ways that are not good." And again:

I offered my back to scourges and my cheeks to blows. I did not turn my 
face away from the shame of spitting; the Lord was my helper, and
therefore 
I did not waver. I held out my face like a hard stone, and I knew that I 
would not be put to shame, because he who justifies me is at hand.

And again he says, "They cast lots for my clothing and pierced my feet and

hands." "But I lay down and slept and have risen again because the Lord
has 
taken charge of me."

And again he says, "They made mouths at me, shook their heads and said, 
‘Let him deliver himself.’" That all this happened to Christ at the hands 
of the Jews you can find out, for as he was being crucified they curled 
their lips, shook their heads and said, "Let him who raised the dead now 
save himself!"	

Justin, First Apology 38.