when I tell you what I think), but are [only] called Jews and children of Abraham, worship-
ping God with the lips, as God Himself declared, but the heart was far from Him. But I and
others, who are right-minded Christians on all points, are assured that there will be a resur-
rection of the dead, and a thousand years500 in Jerusalem, which will then be built, adorned,
and enlarged, [as] the prophets Ezekiel and Isaiah and others declare.
500 We have translated the text of Justin as it stands. Commentators make the sense, “and that there will be
a thousand years in Jerusalem,” or “that the saints will live a thousand years in Jerusalem.”
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Chapter LXXX.—The opinion of Justin with regard to the reign of a thousand…