Exhortation to the Greeks

[3] Among previous commentators there was no consensus concerning the exact dating, but [4] Schreckenberg, Buitenwerf, and Hardwick agreed that the work was probably from the 4th century,[5] which is in line with the biographical data of Marcellus of Ancyra.

[6] The theories of the pagan Greek thinkers, the author claims, share in this false Homeric heritage.

[10] Although this assertion is questioned by some recent authors,[11] many philosophers like Aristobulus argued even before the time of Christ that the essentials of Greek philosophy and metaphysics were derived from Jewish sources.

[12] In the 2nd century Platonic philosopher Numenius of Apamea echoed this position in his well-known statement "What is Plato but Moses speaking Attic Greek?"

[13] Pseudo-Justin starts his analysis of the pagan thinkers by looking at the teachings of the Milesian school, including Thales, Anaximander, and Anaximenes of Miletus.

[24] There is an edition by Miroslav Marcovich including the text in the original Greek, and a summary and notes in English, published by De Gruyter in 1990.

[25] A newer edition by Christoph Riedweg includes the Greek text along with a critical apparatus, and a study of the work in German, published by Friedrich Reinhardt Verlag in 1994.

Falls is included in Volume 6 of The Fathers of the Church: A New Translation (Patristic series) by the Catholic University of America Press, first published 1948, last printed 2008.