Second Apology of Justin e others from joining them laughed both at those who framed these falsehoods, and at the disguise itself and at popular opinion and I confess that I both boast and with all my strength strive to be found a Christian; not because the teachings of Plato are different from those of Christ, but because they are not in all respects similar, as neither are those of the others, Stoics, and poets, and historians. For each man spoke well in proportion to the share he had of the spermatic word,[23] 1 Clement For what reason was our father Abraham blessed? was it not because he wrought righteousness and truth through faith?[125] For what reason was our father Abraham blessed? Was it not because he wrought righteousness and truth through faith? Isaac,[154]