Our examination of the Old Testament quotations in Justin is greatly facilitated by the collection and discussion of them in Credner’s Beitraege [Endnote 39:1], a noble example of that true patient work which is indeed the reverse of showy, but forms the solid and well-laid foundation on which alone genuine knowledge can be built.  Credner has collected and compared in the most elaborate manner the whole of Justin’s quotations with the various readings in the MSS. of the LXX; so that we may state our results with a much greater confidence than in any other case (except perhaps Clement of Rome, where we have the equally accurate and scholarly guidance of Dr. Lightfoot [Endnote 40:1]) that we are not led astray by imperfect materials.  I have availed myself freely of Credner’s collection of variants, indicating the cases where the existence of documentary (or, in some places, inferential) evidence for Justin’s readings has led to the quotation being placed in a different class from that to which it would at first sight seem to belong.  I have also, as hitherto, not assumed an absolutely strict standard for admission to the first class of ‘exact’ quotations.  Many of Justin’s quotations are very long, and it seemed only right that in these the standard should be somewhat, though very slightly, relaxed.  The chief point that we have to determine is the extent to which the writers of the first century were in the habit of freely paraphrasing or quoting from memory, and it may as a rule be assumed that all the instances in the first class and most (not quite all) of those in the second do not admit of such an explanation.  I have been glad in every case where a truly scientific and most impartial writer like Credner gives his opinion, to make use of it instead of my own.  I have the satisfaction to think that whatever may be the value of the other sections of this enquiry, this at least is thoroughly sound, and based upon a really exhaustive sifting of the data.

The quotations given below are from the undoubted works of Justin, the Dialogue against Tryphon and the First Apology; the Second Apology does not appear to contain any quotations either from the Old or New Testament.

Exact.     |   Slightly       |    Variant._     | Remarks.
|    variant._      |                   |
|                   |                   |
|Apol. 1.59, Gen.   |                   |
|  1.1-3.           |                   |
Dial. 62, Gen. 1. |                   |                   |
26-28.          |                   |                   |
|Dial. 102, Gen.    |                   |free quotation
|  3.15.            |                   | (Credner). 
D.62, Gen. 3.22.  |                   |                   |
|D.127, Gen.        |                   |
|  7.16.            |                   |
|D.139, Gen. 9.     |                   |
|  24-27.           |                   |
|D.127, Gen. 11.5.  |                   |free quotation
|                   |                   | (Cr.)