Stoic School
Philosophical school. St. Justin first attached himself as a disciple to a Stoic, but since he heard nothing about God from him, he moved on.
Preface and Praise of Sacred Scripture
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Chapter I: On the Excellence, Necessity, and Fruit of Sacred Scripture
— Justin first attached himself to a Stoic but heard nothing about God
"First he attached himself as a disciple to a certain Stoic, but since he heard nothing about God from him"
Chapter I (The Six Days of Creation)
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He Created
— The Stoics erred in saying the world was created from eternal unbegotten matter
"the error of Plato and the Stoics, who said that the world was indeed created by God, but from eternal and unbegotten matter"
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He Created
— The Stoics affirm that the sight of the world's beauty proves it was made by God
"all the schools of philosophers that held anything more divine affirm by unanimous consent that nothing so proves both that the world was made by God and that it is administered by His care, as the very sight of the whole world and the consideration of its beauty and order. So Plato, the Stoics, Cicero, Plutarch, and Aristotle"