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.” 638 Chapter LXXX.—The opinion of Justin with regard to the reign of a thousand…